The Sinews of War – Benjamin Stone and the Hounslow Sword Factory

A joint event between the Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society and the Hounslow and District History Society

This illustrated talk will be given by Howard Simmons, a member of both local history societies and also of the Arms and Armour Society and the Company of Military Historians. It is a 17th century story about an entrepreneurial cutler who became sword-maker to King James I. He established Hounslow Heath as a centre of weapons manufacture for the Royalist armies of King Charles I and then Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarian armies during the Civil Wars