Southall

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Alfred Gardens

beaconsfield road

Southall College of Technology

Broadway

Three Horseshoes Pub.  Royal Brentford Brewery house style architecture, 1922 architect Noel Parr, Has all three original bars. Jettied first floor with leaded casements. 

Featherstone Road

Featherstone Arms

High Street

developed only from the turn of the century. Very low key, apart from the town hall

George and Dragon, 1914-15 by Frank J. Fisher, with elaborately half-timbered gables.

Red Lion.  Sports Pub 1970s, then Gin Palace, Truman's until mid 70s then Watneys.  Three pounds to go in. three storeys, c18 but much altered.

Odeon Cinema

Town Hall  This brick and-stone building for Southall Norwood Urban District Council was designed by T.Newell and built in 1897-8 with an extremely   humble interior The iron-and-glass canopy a underground public toilets, is a later addition. The building was sold in 1994        

Police Station

Holy Trinity

Lancaster Road

St George

Norman Avenue

North Road

Grove House, an early c18 house 

little green

Plough Inn low gabled -, a timber-framed building in disguise

Northcote Avenue

Northcote Arms 1907 by Nowell Parr, half-timbered and green faience.

Saxon Gardens

South Road

105 Manor House was called 'The Wrenns', 1587 after one of the windows.  Awsiter family.  Cottages and clock tower, demolished

Southall council in 1913 and Chamber of Commerce Offices since 1970.  16th century and 17th panelling inside.  Timber frame over mantle panels

The Liberty Shopping Hall - Liberty Cinema, built as Palace Cinema in 1929 for United British Pictures. built as a Gaumont cinema in 1929 by George Coles. A unique example of a Chinese cinema exterior, with much coloured faience; tiled pagoda roofs with bold gilded dragons.

St Anselm

Methodist Church

Railway Tavern

Southall War Room Regional Control Centre. The bunker is located beneath Hanborough Junior & Infants School. There were originally four entrances, the only one now accessible is an unobtrusive wooden door on the north side of the main school entrance. It appears that .the Borough Council had built Middle School on the site of a car park, only to disover that they had put it over the top of a Regional Control Centre.   Complications arose when it was found that foul water had collected in the centre and cost about fifty thousand pounds to pump it out and render the site wholesome. The bunker runs west under the school with the operations room and plant rooms under a raised section of the playground behind the school buildings. Two other entrances, now bricked up are clearly visible from the staff car park at the end of Beatrice Road and a fourth entrance, also blocked, is in the playground. The bunker was built during the 2nd world war and was enlarged and modernised in the 1960's when the network of four regional war rooms in London  was expanded.  Southall was modernised to take on the role of the now reduced North West Group 'Group War HQ' (Control 5 IE). It also housed Ealing Council's emergency control centre. It is unclear when it was abandoned. By the time the school was built in 1983 it had definitely closed. The bunker is in appalling and dangerous internal condition. Everything is wet and most internal doors and partition walls have rotted away..  Going through the wooden entrance door a short flight of steps leads to a corridor at right angles which opens into the first room. From this point onwards, the bunker is always flooded at least to a depth of six inches. 

Southall

Market

Stackleton

Part of the park

Tudor Road

Viking Road


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