Welcome

Welcome to the Hounslow and District History Society website.

Meetings of the society are held on the last Tuesday of each month from September to April (except December).

IN THE AUTUMN ’24 TO SPRING ’25 SEASON WE WILL HOLD FOUR MEETINGS  – THE SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, MARCH AND APRIL MEETINGS – at HOUNSLOW UNITED REFORMED CHURCH.   FOR THIS SEASON’S  NOVEMBER, JANUARY, and FEBRUARY MEETINGS, MEMBERS WILL BE INVITED TO LOG-IN TO ZOOM WEB-CAST PRESENTATIONS OF LOCAL HISTORY TALKS. Please see the Events Calendar page of this web site.

THE HONESLAW CHRONICLE (the twice-yearly journal of the H&DHS) is published in March (Spring) and August (Autumn) each year and is sent to all members of the society.

The Autumn 2024 issue of The Honeslaw Chronicle contains articles on:

  • Hounslow, A town, two main roads and their traffic (Part 3, From 1850 to the Present).
  • Blacksmiths/Farriers in the Hounslow/Isleworth area.
  • Feltham Railway Station’s 175th  Anniversary and the Feltham Station Timeline.

The Spring 2024 issue of The Honeslaw Chronicle contains articles on:

  • Knaresborough Castle: Richard of Cornwall and Isleworth’s great castle in the north.
  • Isleworth Public Hall: The Conversazione and Ball – 1891 – A great success.
  • The 175th Anniversary of Feltham Railway Station and Britannia – the first of the last generation of British Steam Locomotives.
  • Charles Farris Limited, candlemakers of Hounslow.

The Autumn 2023 issue of The Honeslaw Chronicle contains articles on:

  • Hounslow: a town, two main roads and their traffic (Part 2, The Golden Age of Stage Coaches)
  • Lydford Castle: Richard of Cornwall’s Court House and Prison beside Dartmoor.
  • From the Looking Back series by Eddie Menday, six short articles: Heaven’s Angel (Hanworth’s Father Bill Shergold, the motor cycling priest); Some Tasty Memories of Wartime British Restaurants; The Birdman of Hanworth Air Park (Clem Sohn); Take a Deep Breath (Syon House and Park, and West Middlesex Hospital); No Jokes Please (Percy House and other old peoples’ homes); Patient Listeners (West Middlesex Hospital Radio).

A few surplus copies from  recent issues are still available from James Marshall for £2.50 each plus second-class postage; please use the CONTACT e-mail form on this web site.

The Contents of previous issues of the Honeslaw Chronicle (Spring 2014 -) can be seen here. http://www.hounslowhistory.org.uk/?page_id=221