SOUTHALL: A Brief History

Southall During the 18th Century                                                                                                      27

Roads – Biscoe – Merrick – Child – Jersey

The End of the Century and the Beginning of A Town                                                                   29

Canal – agricultural reports – Lysons – census

The Early 19th Century                                                                                                                      31

The market again – enclosures – St. Bernards Hospital

The Railway                                                                                                                                          33

Wharncliffe Viaduct – Iron Bridge – station – gauges

– Brentford Branch Line – Three Bridges

Early Victorian Southall                                                                                                                      35

St. John’s Church – separation from Hayes – the end of the manor

Thomas Mills – brick making

The Martin Brothers                                                                                                                           38

Fulham – The Southall kiln – organisation of their production

-their character – evaluation

Late Victorian Southall                                                                                                                       40

Southall Park – Southall News – local government changes – building

– factories – Hanson – gas industry – contemporary descriptions

Edwardian Southall                                                                                                                             43

More building – E.A. Ham – more contemporary descriptions

The First World War and its Aftermath                                                                                          46

The War – further growth – St. Marylebone Schools – depression

The Borough, and Another War and its Aftermath                                                                       48

The charter – the War – Private Pooley – post-war overcrowding

– Indian immigrants

Present-Day Southall                                                                                                                         49

London government reorganisation – description of the town

– famous inhabitants

Population Figures                                                                                                                              51

Biographical References                                                                                                                     53