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The industries are increasing, the chief being:—
(1) Beer, etc.., brewing.
(2) Boat building and
pairing.
(3) Colours and dyes.
(4) Flour, etc., milling.
(5) Gravel quarrying.
(6) Market gardening.
(7) Rubber Tyres, etc.
(8) Pewterware & Candle
Machinery.
(9) Pharmaceutical
istry.
(10) Soaps and perfumes.
(11) Sweets, Confectionery.
(12) Wines.
(13) Sawmills and Joinery.
(14) Fire extinguishers, etc.
(15) Wireless apparatus &
accessories. Gramophones..
(16) Motor cars.
(17) Fancy papers.
(18) Aeroplanes.
(19) Engineering works.
(20) Disinfectants.
(21) Laundries.
(22) Linoleum.
(23) Carbons, Stencils,
Typewriter ribbons,
etc..
The district is rapidly developing in nearly all directions, the
great majority of houses that are going up being of the working
class type, valued round about £600. Great use is being made of
the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, and the Housing Act, particularly
the former.
The large buildings of the Brentford Board of Guardians are
situate at the Eastern end, and receive inmates from the constituent
parishes of:—
Acton, Chiswick, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Heston and
Isleworth, New Brentford, Old Brentford, Perrivale, Twickenham
and West Twyford.