Middlesex; . the mouth of the Brent, only noticing that atthe Church and the Town Hall, near the bridge, the placeattains a certain point of quaint ugliness not withoutattraction, and that its squalid waterside features set inrelief the blooming of Kew Gardens across the are some pleasanter aspects to the right, where,by Old Brentford and Boston House, the town beginsto merge with the spreading outskirts of Ealing ; butas to New Brentford, as it once was, its motto shouldbe Guarda e -passu. When the road has crossed the Brent it passes, onthe left side, the noble demesne of Syon H
Middlesex; . the mouth of the Brent, only noticing that atthe Church and the Town Hall, near the bridge, the placeattains a certain point of quaint ugliness not withoutattraction, and that its squalid waterside features set inrelief the blooming of Kew Gardens across the are some pleasanter aspects to the right, where,by Old Brentford and Boston House, the town beginsto merge with the spreading outskirts of Ealing ; butas to New Brentford, as it once was, its motto shouldbe Guarda e -passu. When the road has crossed the Brent it passes, onthe left side, the noble demesne of Syon House, whichthe tram-traveller might flit by unawares but for anornate gate revealing the grounds. From a right-of-way crossing the park to Isleworth Church on theriver bank, can be had a fuller view of the mansion,crowned by that lion so long familiar to Londonersover Northumberland House, there said, on some suchauthority as that local worthy, the late Mr. Joe Millers, I20 SYON HOUSE, BRENTFORD:GARDEN FRONT. The Western Roads to wag its tail whenever it heard noon struck at West-minster. This stately structure, rebuilt by the Adams, hadbeen a rich nunnery conveyed to the Lord ProtectorSomerset, and is now a seat of the Dukes of Northum-berland. The community of nuns long held out atLisbon, keeping the keys of their English home ; butwhen, a century ago, they showed them to the Duke ofthat day, he is understood to have bluntly remarkedthat the locks had been altered. Another treasure ofthese nuns has been brought back to their nativecountry—the famous Syon Cope, an elaborate specimenof mediaeval embroidery now preserved at South Ken-sington Museum. On the other side of the road one may turn up tothe Earl of Jerseys Osterley Park, first enclosed bySir Thomas Gresham of City renown, the house rebuiltfor Childs the bankers. The park extends over awell timbered and watered flat which Horace Walpolecalled the ugliest in the world ; but that in our dayseems a slander. By a road thr
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