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Doesn't look like we'll be seeing the OP again.  Just passing through I suppose.  A pity..Meanwhile can't find this Cato website with tons of fab pics mentioned by Dave.  But I did turn up Carolyn & Peter Hammond's book Chiswick Through Time which has a wonderful photo of the original Cato's shop at 46 Duke Road (chapter 5)..Anyway (OP or no OP) I've had another rummage..Like I said, OP's orphaned grandad Sydney was living in 1911 is the home of William James Cato (father of Cato shop founder William Henry Cato) at 43 Devonshire Road.  This 1911 census tells us that William James was a self-employed counterman (shopkeeper) in the oil and color(sic) industry.Also living there was William's 87 year old widowed mum Martha who was to die the following year.  Whilst 16 year old Sydney, (the main focus of this search|) was also working as an assistant in oil and color.  Almost certainly meaning he was helping out in the Duke Road shop.  So the OP's grandad would have known the whole family.  Very well indeed.William Henry James in 1911 was running his shop in 1911 at 46 Duke Road and the census tells us that he too was a self-employed oil and colorman.  And we know from the original photo of this shop that it was definitely in William Henry's name (WH Cato in big letters across the doorway).So it suggests that father and son started out in business together.  Yet (possibly because William James was well into his old age by 1902 when the shop was founded) it was put in the name of his pioneering son.Can't prove it (not worth me sending for a Cato death certificate) but it appears William Henry died in the 4th quarter of 1912.Bit complicated and hard to follow I know. Sorry about that....

Stuart Kerr ● 2384d

I well remember Catos next to TGStation. It was a wonderful place which had its very own smell, selling paraffin, hardware and candles.There used to be an elderly lady selling flowers outside the station and when she retired Jason and Spencer Wheeler took it over, using a shed in the yard next to the station which is owned by TfL to store their flowers and make up bouquets.My daughter had a historic canal boat and had ordered a purpose built shed  to use as a kitchen from Simon who was renting a shed in the yard but the shed didn’t materialise so I asked Jason and Spencer if they’d seen Simon at all who said that he was in the Caribbean installing sheds on yachts.They said that he wasn’t and was in Hammersmith with a lot of people trying to find him.The area was being used as a dump and as I sat there on an old washing machine I had a vision!When Jonathan Carr had a vision  for Bedford Park, there was a garden centre next to the Station so that was what was needed again.Suggested it to Jason and Spencer to think about and they did.So I sent a recommendation to TfL who said that it’s such a small site that it wasn’t really of much interest to them but they would consider it. A lady then arrived to visit and approved.So then we had to decide what to do and how much it was going to cost.Too much so Jason and Spencer did it all themselves with help from their families. Which plants to sell and we made lists.They’ve done so much to help the local community, suppling plants for Green Days and water for cleaning the Timeline Mural. Cleaning the pavementsPlease support Wheelers now.

Rima Jones ● 2384d