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Post to the south Brentford Dock

South Road

Manor House, Called Goodenough House, school run by Dr.Dodd and then Lady Byron

Boston Park Road

St John's church

Ealing and Old Brentford Cemetery

Magnificent magnolias two chapels, single ok and well kept looked after and cross memorials except director of sign company in 1953. Lots of Poles

Enfield Road

9 Lord Nelson. Large, back-street local with a layout that caters for customers' different tastes. The dining area also serves as a family section where children are allowed; the rest of the pub is broken up into a number of cosy areas. Specialising in organic foods from a farm in Derbyshire,

Great West Road

Great West Road opened with the exception of the part situated between South Ealing Road and Boston Road, which necessitated the demolition of a considerable amount of property. This portion was completed in June 1926, and the late King George V drove through the newly opened road to Ascot races in that year.

Vantage West

Henleys

Beechams, a dominating brick-faced eleven-storey slab, since 1955, built for Simmonds Aero... It forms the centre of a composition of which the left wing dates from 1936 by George Warren; the matching wing and the tower - on an exceptional scale for its date - were added by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners in 193 8-42. The wings have ribbon windows ending in rounded corners. Winged SA emblems on the railings

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Fountains Office Park, developed by Markheath Securities, a group of large buildings of yellow brick with a plethora of post-modern trappings.

Brentford Nylons

Smith’s Crisps

Simmond's Products Limited distinctive factory building erected in 1939 later owned by British Overseas Airways Corporation. This is a long concrete building of four stories with a centre section ten stories high which forms a conspicuous landmark in this district.

Vantage West, a 1960s tower of offices, transformed by showy blue glass cladding of 1990, when it was refurbished by Vell Matthews Wheatley.

 

Wallis House. Glaxo SmithKline HQ to go on the site of Lucozade.   Restored 1940s building.  Gilbert Wallis and Partners 1936. This stretch of road included an illuminated, animated, advertising sign known to many drivers coming into London on the M4 motorway. The sign, showing a bottle of Lucozade emptying into a glass, was on the wall of what was the Lucozade factory, which opened in 1953 and was demolished in late 2004. The sign was removed to Gunnersbury Park Museum in September 2004 after a brief campaign to preserve it in situ. The sign has now returned to its position next to the M4 elevated section, continuing to urge commuters to augment their energy levels whilst stuck in a line of traffic.

Wang tall slab glossily refurbished in 1985 as prestige headquarters for computer company by Fairhursts.

Clock - a survivor, flat thrusting, all that remains from a Henley's garage of 1937 by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, now an adjunct to offices of 1988-9.

Beechams, a dominating brick-faced eleven-storey slab, since 1955, built for Simmonds Aero... It forms the centre of a composition of which the left wing dates from 1936 by George Warren; the matching wing and the tower - on an exceptional scale for its date - were added by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners in 193 8-42. The wings have ribbon windows ending in rounded corners. Winged SA emblems on the railings

Linotype is in low pavilions away from the road.

Alfa Laval. There is a resemblance to the blades of a separator, which is what is made by the occupiers, Alfa-Laval.  1925.

Alfa Lavel Bowater’s fibre drum BRS 1953 Brentford nylons Kluwer publishing

Little Ealing

Westyellyng’ 1408 or Little Ealing – ‘Little Yelling’ 1650, ‘Little Ealing’ 1786. Hamlet there by 17th. 

Little Ealing Lane

Substantial houses remain from the old hamlet of Little  Ealing:

Ealing Park. Place House was the original big house. Sir Francis Dashwood inherited it through marriage. He sold it and it was rebuilt. Renamed Ealing Park and the grounds were landscaped by Repton. William Lawrence took it over and Queen Victoria stayed there as a young woman. Mrs. Lawrence famous gardens Sold for building to the British Land Company in 1882 and the house became Convent of the Order of the Sacred Heart of Mary. Renamed Place House in the 1980s and became the King Fahad Academy.

Rochester House probably built in 1710 for John Pearce, a London distiller, and named for his son, Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester.

Inst Production engineers

General Doumouriez lived in the area

Mercury Road

Northfields Avenue

Coldfall Manor House was probably at the southern end of the road.

Plough Inn. There in 1722 but rebuilt several times.

Niagara House. Probably built on the site of the manor house. Home of Charles Blondin until 1897 and the name related to his tight rope walk over Niagara.  Demolished in the early 1930s.

Windmill Road

St Faith

Library

Villas

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Globe

Foxe Mattress Co, was Beldam Tyre Co.

 


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