Chiswick Mall

Long walk from home down by the river stopping for a drink and then coming back via Duke’s Meadows and Chiswick House. Bedford House on Chiswick Mall was, according to my father, owned by our family in the early 1800s. I am always tempted to go and knock on the door and claim kinship but there are now three (sizeable) houses behind the imposing gates. Given the size of my Shepherd’s Bush terraced house it is fair to say the family fortunes have fallen a bit...