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, Pitzhanger . London Museum
Manor House and of Water & Steam
Gallery Green Dragon Lane, Brentford.
Mattock Lane W5. Tel 020 8567 1227. Tel 020 8568 4757. 1 Kew Bridge,
1 Ealing Broadway. Open House Gunnersbury then bus 65, 237 or 267.
closed for refurbishment until spring Open 11am–4pm Tue–Sun & bank
2018. Park: 7:30am–dusk daily; café: hol Mon (engines operate at
8am– 6pm Mon–Fri, 8:30am– 6pm weekends at set times – check
Sat & Sun (till 5pm in winter). website for details). & 8 book
Closed public hols. 7 Exhibitions. ahead. - Sat & Sun. = 7
∑ pitzhanger.org.uk ∑ waterandsteam.org.uk
City Barge, Strand on the Green
This 19th-century water pumping
Sir John Soane, architect of the station near the north end of Kew ! Strand on
Bank of England (see p151), Bridge is now a museum of the Green
designed this manor house, steam power and water. Its main
completed in 1803, as his own exhibits are five giant Cornish W4. 1 Gunnersbury then bus 237 or
country residence. There are beam engines that pumped 267. 3 Kew Bridge.
clear echoes of his elaborately water here from the river, to be
constructed town house in distributed across London. The This charming Thames-side
Lincoln’s Inn Fields (see pp140–41). earliest engines, dating from walk passes fine 18th-century
Soane retained two of the 1820, are similar to those built houses as well as more modest
principal formal rooms: the to pump water out of Cornish cottages once inhabited by
drawing room and mines. Visitors can fishermen. The oldest of its
the dining room, see them working three pubs is the City Barge,
designed in 1768 by at weekends and on parts of which date from the
George Dance the public holidays. The 15th century; the name is older
Younger, with whom Waterworks gallery and derives from the time when
Soane had worked tells the story of the Lord Mayor’s barge was
before establishing London’s water moored on the Thames outside.
his own reputation. supply, in lots of
A sympathetic 20th- interactive detail,
cen tury extension and there’s a fun @ Chiswick House
houses a gallery outdoor area, Burlington Lane W4. Tel 020 8995
(currently closed for Splash Zone, where 0508. 1 Chiswick. Open Apr–Oct:
refurbishment). The Miniature train, London younger children 10am–6pm (to 5pm Oct) Sun–Wed &
gardens, which were Museum of Water & Steam can play with the bank hols. & 8 for groups, book in
bought by Soane in water features. advance. 7 phone ahead. =
1800 along with the house, Gardens Open 7am–dusk daily (free
have been a public park since admission). - 8:30am– 6pm Apr–Oct,
1901. The section behind the / Kew Gardens to 1hr before garden closes in winter.
house has been restored to how See pp266–7. ∑ chgt.org.uk
it would have looked in Soane’s
time, and there’s an attractive Completed in 1729 to the
café. It offers a welcome contrast design of its owner, the third
to the bustle of nearby Ealing. Earl of Burlington, this is a
Chiswick
House

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