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231 High Street Brentford was a few doors down from where Celia Cotton's grandmother was born at number 237. Celia is the webmaster of the Brentford High Street Project http://www.bhsproject.co.uk a web site devoted to the history of Brentford High Street. This site is very interesting and worth a long look as there is just loads of information on there. Celia told me that the High Street is unusual in being numbered sequentially. 231 was on the west side of St Pauls Road, whereas 233 onwards was on east side of St Paul's Road. In a 1940 trade directory 231 is listed as a clothiers; Paine Bros.
Celia did some research on my behalf using telephone directories. From 1954-1960 K&B are listed as follows:
Kennington & Bourlet, 231 High Street Brentford... EALing 9995
In 1961 the listing is changed as K&B have now moved to Thanet House:-
Kennington & Bourlet Ltd, Photog Eqpt Mfrs, Thanet ho High st Brentford... ISLewth 5093
The listing changes again in 1964 to:-
Kennington & Bourlet Ltd, High st Yiewsley....W Draytn 4575
Celia went on to say that in 'Brentford & Chiswick Pubs' by Gillian Clegg there is a photo of 231 High Street (luckily it was next door to a pub, The Feathers number 232) showing a building with a first and second floor, central recessed door with shop windows either side - it looks like a clothiers, the photo was taken in the 1960s.
Celia's web site contains the following information regarding the occupancy of 231 before K& B were in residence:-
Thomas Honeybone, watch & clock maker & jeweler lived here from 1839 - 1871, when he was 68; in 1874 the business was 'Honeybone & Pearce'; and by 1881 Thomas Pearce was running the business; he remained here until 1891; by 1901 Arthur H Bridger, jeweller, was living here, although the 1913 directory names the business as Pearce & Co Ltd, watchmakers and the 1909/10 Valuation returns name the occupiers as 'Pearce & Co (watchmakers)'. At this point the property is described as 'terrace shop & dwelling house, very old and more or less dilapidated'.
Frederick Souch, watchmaker, is listed in 1928; by 1933, after nearly 100 years of use for watchmaking, the premises were then used by a clothier.
There is a tantalising glimpse of 231 on Celia's web site. Follow this link and see the property next to The Feathers PH with a clock hanging outside. Use your browser's back button to return to this site.
Celia has also undertaken some research on my behalf and found the following London Gazette notices relating to the liquidation of K&B:-
Issue 43806
Published on the 2nd November 1965
Name of Company: KENNINGTON & BOURLET LIMITED.
Nature of Business: MANUFACTURERS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT.
Address of Registered Office: 23 Roden Street, Ilford, Essex.
Liquidator's Name and Address: John Anthony Brewer, 23 Roden Street, Ilford, Essex.
Date of Appointment: 28th October 1965.
By whom Appointed: Members. (217)
KENNINGTON & BOURLET LIMITED
At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above-named Company, duly convened and held at 23 Roden Street, Ilford, Essex, on the 28th day of October 1965 the following Special Resolution was duly passed: " That the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that John Anthony Brewer of 23 Roden Street, Ilford, Essex, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator of the Company for the purposes of such winding-up." (218) W. J. Kemp, Chairman.
Issue 43819
Published 19th November 1965
KENNINGTON & BOURLET LIMITED
Notice is hereby given that the Creditors of the above-named Company, which, is being voluntarily wound up, are required, on or before the 4th day of December 1965, to send their names and addresses and particulars of their debts or claims and the
names and addresses of their Solicitors, if any, to the undersigned John Anthony Brewer, of 23 Roden Street, Ilford, Essex, the Liquidator of the said Company, and, if so required by notice in writing from the said Liquidator, are, personally or by their Solicitors, to come in and prove their debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified' in such notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution! Made before such debts are proved.--Dated this 9th dayof November 1965.(189) /. A. Brewer, Liquidator.
Issue 44552
Published 22nd March 1968
KENNINGTON & BOURLET LIMITED Notice is hereby given, in pursuance of section 290 of the Companies Act, 1948, that a General Meetingof the Members of the above-named Company will be held at 23 Roden Street, Ilford, Essex, on Tuesday, the 23rd April 1968, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the purpose of having an account laid before them, and to receive the Liquidator'sreport, showing how the winding-up of the Company has been conducted and the property of the Company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator ; and also of determining
by Extraordinary Resolution the manner in which the books, accounts, papers, and documents of the Company, and of the Liquidator thereof, shall be disposed of. Any Member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend and
vote instead of him, and such proxy need not also be a Member.--Dated this 21st day of March 1968. (183) /. A. Brewer, Liquidator.
Thank you Celia for all your help.
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