{"id":104841,"date":"2019-03-08T23:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-brentford-west-london-its-finer-moments-are-the-grungier-ones\/"},"modified":"2019-03-09T00:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T17:03:31","slug":"lets-move-to-brentford-west-london-its-finer-moments-are-the-grungier-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-brentford-west-london-its-finer-moments-are-the-grungier-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Brentford, west London: its finer moments are the grungier ones"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt\u2019s as if some deranged, power-filled local politician had spliced Putney with the lower reaches of PudongWhat\u2019s going for it? Walking along the Thames, from Kew to Twickenham, you\u2019d be momentarily excused for wondering where you were. Brentford is an odd place, as if some deranged, power-filled local politician had spliced, say, Putney with the lower reaches of Pudong. It has all the usual accoutrements of a west London suburb: a pleasant enough old, bricky centre, snug pubs, a gigantic stately home, Georgian townhouses and lovely walks by the Thames, all chucked together with luxury gyms and 80s offices housing financial advisers. But recent years have added beefed-up apartment blocks and the shrink-wrapped offices of today\u2019s economic masters, Sega, JC Decaux, GSK and Sky. Brentford\u2019s finer moments are the grungier ones, the lower reaches of the Brent, where buddleia and elderflower burst from the paths and houseboats flaunt their blooms in recycled Belfast sinks. At spots like this you can scrape away the banal present to see the town\u2019s origins, a place older than London, where ancient travellers and tribes once met to trade, I don\u2019t know, amulets and barley, at the ford across the Brent.The case against It\u2019s definitely not a beauty, though it might have been. Overdevelopment and traffic choke the place. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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