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Leads off from The Avenue, which was so-named because it was the road that led to Avenue House an 18thCentury property which was demolished in 1949 (all that remains are the gate piers and brick walls that can be seen on the High Street next to Holy Angels Church). Once home to barrister John Graham, who counted among his friends the artist George Morland and the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the estate was requisitioned during the Second World War. After the war the property was handed to Heston and Isleworth Borough Council which laid it out as a public park in 1952, with a rest garden and children’s playground. According to Edith’s Streets: “There was once an avenue of oak trees, some of which were grown from acorns taken from the crops of pheasants shot by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Three of these oak trees remained in 1952. A plaque about this was on an arch in the grounds, which was demolished.”
