Kew Bridge

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Clayponds Lane

Pottery Arms 1922 by Nowell Parr recall the industries that dominated this part of Old Brentford until the 1960s.

Great west rpad

Emerson and Norris Ltd artificial; stone. conrer Gunnersbury

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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

 

Green Dragon Lane

Water works.  Now Kew Bridge Engines’ Trust.  Kew Bridge Pumping Station was built by the Grand Junction Water Works Company in 1837 and since 1838 drinking water has been pumped from this site, serving a large area of north-west London. This had been the Grand Junction Canal Company, which had moved in to water supply. They drew water from this area from 1820. The pumping station dates from 1867, but the land had been bought in the 1830s when the works took water from the river. Originally pumped to Paddington but stopped when Camden Hill was opened in 1845. Now a Museum, open daily and home to a magnificent collection of steam-driven water-pumping engines. Solidly constructed engine houses and elegant stand-pipe tower

Engine House 1837. Stock brick with a stone portico. Early iron roof – a complex framework of iron bars.  Boulton and Watt West Cornish engine 1820, Maudslay beam engine 1838, Bull engine 1859 by Harvey of Hayle.

Standpipe of 1867. Designed as a bell tower.  190ft tall. Stock brick with stone arches enclosing two iron standpipes. Water flows by gravity round the district.

Cornish Engine house.  Rendered brick containing two large Cornish Engines. One by Sandys, Crane and Vivian of 1846 and one by Harvey of Hayle, 1871.

Three steam engines of 1830s.  In 1890, there were two storage reservoirs with 13,500,000 galls water.  There were seven pumping engines of 1,100 hp pumping water to Campden Hill.

Telegraph poles in the water works ground were for the GPO training school opposite

Building. Since 1986 water has been pumped from the corrugated window-less building in the disused filter bed just beyond the old pumping station

Ring Main Shaft.  The new London water ring main passes under this site and crosses the road here, about 45 metres underground. Construction site and access shaft. The ring main connects to these shafts at a depth of 40m

Flats built on the site of the old filter beds. The ring main crosses here.  Filter bed embankments can be seen.  Flats named after the water engineers.

Dead Men's Grave plaque pit at the north end

Haverfield Estate

This was built on the site of redundant filter beds from the water works. Ut was designed by the borough architect G. A. Trevett in 1971 with six twenty-three-storey towers and the later phases houses and low flats completed 1974 and 1979.

Kew Bridge Road

Kew Bridge Station. 22nd August 1849. Between Brentford and Chiswick on South Western Trains.  In a sad state. Designed by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), who was responsible for such important London buildings as the Royal Exchange. The station was built for the London and South Western Railway Company's Hounslow Loop Line and opened in 1849. The station is on one side of Kew Junction and there is a rail link to the North London Line at South Acton. Trains ran between Willesden Junction and Kew Bridge until 1940. A few 19th century buildings, including the Station House, remain above the up platform North side 1853- 1863. Built 1868.  Became a bus centre 1862-1940. West of the High Road, north east of Lionel Road junction is a subway from the existing station.  In 1989 the station building was sold and footbridge lost its glass. A new entrance was created.

Kew Bridge station.  1st August 1853. North and South West Junction Railway.  Station north of Lionel Road. Opened as ‘Kew’. 1862 closed. Buildings there into the 1950s. 1862 new building opened west of Chiswick High Road north of Lionel Road.  1868 renamed ‘Kew Bridge’.  1918 partly closed and had facilities through ‘Kew Bridge’ Station next door, (London and South West Railway).  1920 partly demolished but some of the buildings continued to be used for other purposes and platforms remain.

Goods yard, original yard closed 1967

Lionel Road

Station House.  Still standing in Lionel Road and overlooking the platforms now used as offices

M4 extension

A leviathan scale without technology.

Railway Line

Old Kew Junction. Line from Willesden Junction opened in 1851 to give a connection through from Southampton to Willesden.  Line to the station opened 1862.

New goods yard opened north of the junction in 1929


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