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Shops on Chiswick High Road facing Turnham Green. Chiswick High Road is the principal shopping and dining street of Chiswick, a district in the west of London.It was part of the main Roman road running west out of London, and remained the main road until the 1950s when the A4 was built across Chiswick.
The Chiswick Empire (1912 to 1959) was at 414 Chiswick High Road. It had 2,140 seats, [ 78 ] and staged music hall entertainment, plays, reviews, opera, ballet and an annual Christmas pantomime . The Q Theatre (1924 to 1959) was a small theatre opposite Kew Bridge station.
The Chiswick Empire was a theatre facing Turnham Green in Chiswick that opened in 1912 and closed and was demolished in 1959. A venue for touring artists, some of the greatest names in drama, variety and music hall performed there including George Formby , Laurel and Hardy , Chico Marx , Peter Sellers and Liberace .
Chiswick from the river, in Walter Harrison's History of London, c. 1775 Old Chiswick is the area of the original village beside the river Thames for which the modern district of Chiswick is named. The village grew up around St Nicholas Church , founded c. 1181 and named for the patron saint of fishermen.
The Power House, Chiswick is a former electricity generating station on Chiswick High Road and a Grade II listed building, completed in 1901. It provided power for the London United Electrical Tramway Company until 1917.
Chiswick Bridge is a reinforced concrete deck arch bridge over the River Thames in West London. It is one of three bridges opened in 1933 as part of an ambitious scheme to relieve traffic congestion west of London. The structure carries the A316 road between Chiswick on the north bank of the Thames and Mortlake on the south bank.
The main door, with a round pediment, faces north on to Chiswick High Road. There is no apse; the side walls are stepped. The ground floor is designed with intentionally blind window panels. The building is ornamented with substantial amounts of moulded and rubbed brick and terracotta decoration in Renaissance style. [6]
The Friends of Turnham Green cited the overshadowing of the pub in their successful objection to the development of the whole of the adjacent part of Chiswick High Road and area behind it in 2015. [4] In 2024, the pub was extensively refurbished, reopening on 4 April. [5]