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Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society

Categories: Community / Clubs, History

The society's website doesn't specify when it came into existence. It contains a number of 'journals', the oldest of which is dated 1980, so maybe it dates from then.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society

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