A Hive of Industry at Gunnersbury Park Museum

A Hive of Industry is an exhibition of famous products from Hounslow and Ealing. The area of West London which now forms the boroughs of Hounslow and Ealing has been the home to an amazing variety of industries and has produced an enormous range of goods, many of them household names. The collections at Gunnersbury Park Museum include many of these goods and they are now on show, some of them for the first time. They include: a vacuum cleaner from the Hoover factory; tins of Cherry Blossom boot polish; a Bush radio and a Leak tuner; a 17th century sword from the Hounslow sword factory; a Jantzen swimming costume; beer bottles from Fuller Smith and Turner; early pharmaceuticals from Glaxo; a Noon curry box; razors from Gillette and Wilkinson Sword; a poster for an Ealing Studios film; and a wealth of other products from well-known factories such as Coty, Sanderson's, Firestone, Maclean's, and Lucozade.