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Leafy artists' suburb: a tile-hung detached house on Rupert Road, Bedford Park, by the architect Norman Shaw, 1879. Bedford Park is a suburban development in Chiswick, London, begun in 1875 under the direction of Jonathan Carr, with many large houses in British Queen Anne Revival style by Norman Shaw and other leading Victorian era architects including Edward William Godwin, Edward John May ...
The Chiswick School of Art, sometimes called the Chiswick School of Art and Science, was an art school in Bath Road, Bedford Park, London, from 1881 until 1899, which was then merged into the Acton and Chiswick Polytechnic. In 1928, it became the Chiswick Polytechnic and, in 1976, it was merged into the West London Institute of Higher Education.
St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park was initially a temporary iron building from 1876 on Chiswick High Road facing Chiswick Lane. The current building's foundation stone was laid in 1879 and consecrated in 1880. It was designed, along with much of Bedford Park, by Norman Shaw, and was called "a very lovely church" by John Betjeman.
'Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. the Healthiest Place in the World': coloured lithograph by Frederick Hamilton Jackson, c. 1882. The developer of the Bedford Park estate, Jonathan Carr, commissioned the artist F. Hamilton Jackson to create publicity images including an "iconic" one of the church, which had not even been completed at the time. [7]
Chiswick School / ˈ tʃ ɪ z ɪ k / ⓘ is an English secondary school with academy status in Chiswick, West London. It educates more than 1,300 pupils, aged 11 to 18 years. [1] This number includes 200 pupils studying at the upper school sixth form within the school grounds. The current headteacher is Laura Ellener. [1]
The New Bedford schools will open with three different schedules for students: The first day of school for New Bedford High School Grade 9 and 12 students only is Wednesday, Aug. 28. The first day ...
H. J. Mulliner & Co. was a well-known British coachbuilder operating from Bedford Park, Chiswick, West London. The company which owned it was formed by H J Mulliner in 1897 but the business was a continuing branch of a family business founded in Northampton in the 1760s to hire out carriages.
Chiswick was a local government district in the county of Middlesex, England from 1858 to 1927. It was part of the London postal district and the Metropolitan Police District . The Chiswick Improvement Act 1858 [ 1 ] created a board of 19 commissioners, one of whom was nominated by the Duke of Devonshire , the major landowner of the parish.