Editing Chiswick (section)

== Economy ==

[[File:Fuller's brewery - pipes - cylinder.jpg|thumb|left|[[Griffin Brewery]], [[Old Chiswick]]]]

{{further|Chiswick High Road}}

Chiswick High Road contains a mix of retail shops, restaurants, food outlets and office and hotel space. The wide streets encourage cafes, pubs and restaurants to provide pavement seating. Lying between the offices at the [[Golden Mile (Brentford)|Golden Mile]] [[A4 road (England)|Great West Road]] and [[Hammersmith]], office developments and warehouse conversions to offices began from the 1960s. The first in 1961 was 414 Chiswick High Road on the site of the old [[Chiswick Empire]]. Between 1964 and 1966, the 18-storey [[IBM]] headquarters was built above [[Gunnersbury station]], designed to accommodate 1500 people. It became the home of the [[BSI Group|British Standards Institution]] in 1994.{{sfn|Clegg|1995|p=137}} Chiswick has an annual book festival.<ref>{{cite web |title=Who organises the Chiswick Book Festival? |url=https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/who-organises-the-chiswick-book-festival/ |website=The Chiswick Calendar |access-date=26 October 2022}}</ref>

Chiswick is home to the [[Fuller's Brewery|Griffin Brewery]], where [[Fuller, Smith & Turner]] and its predecessor companies brewed their prize-winning [[cask ale|ales]] on the same site for over 350 years. The original brewery was in the gardens of Bedford House in Chiswick Mall.<ref name=History>{{cite web |title=History and Heritage |url=http://www.fullers.co.uk/brewery/history-and-heritage |publisher=Fuller's |access-date=21 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160626144130/http://www.fullers.co.uk/brewery/history-and-heritage |archive-date=26 June 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

A weekly [[farmers' market]] is held every Sunday by Grove Park Farm House, Duke's Meadows.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Food Market Chiswick |url=https://dukesmeadowstrust.org/food-market-chiswick/ |publisher=Duke's Meadows Trust |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref> A monthly flower market is held on the first Sunday of each month on Chiswick High Road in the old market place, now mostly used as a car park, near the Hogarth statue.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chiswick Flower Market |url=https://chiswickflowermarket.com/ |publisher=Chiswick Flower Market |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref> An antiques market is to be held on the second Sunday of each month, and a "Cheese and Provisions" market with 23 stalls on the third and fourth Sundays of each month in the same area, so there will in effect be a weekly market event on the High Road once again.<ref>{{cite web |title=New application for cheese and provisions market submitted |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=concheesemarket001.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=29 June 2021 |date=12 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Chiswick Cheese Market |url=https://www.chiswickcheesemarket.uk/ |publisher=Chiswick Cheese Market |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref>