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The building being erected beside the Hammersmith and City Line station I believe originally was to be an 8 screen cinema, replacing the older cinema in King Street. Now it seems it is just more office space.
For about 40 years I used to regularly have lunch in Goldhawk Road's "Haris CafeRest",(other side of the road to the pie and mash) but about 2 years ago the Cypriot owners retired, it is still a cheap, traditional food cafe its new owners being Irish.I do not go there now as I like to remember it as it was.
Are there some plans to enlarge Westfield Mall into space near Wood Lane?.

John | 24.04.13 - 8:04 a.m. | #

Thanks for posting this: Shepherd's Bush is an area of London I've developed quite a liking for.
Coincidentally, I was actually out that way on Saturday, passing along the Uxbridge Rd to get to Uxbridge, itself. Apart from the traffic (I was on the bike) it was an enjoyable journey, seeing parts of London I don't often visit.

RogerW | 24.04.13 - 10:11 a.m. | #

there's a useful bookswap facility in a secondhand furniture shop at the back of the original shopping centre in Shepherds Bush (across the main road) you can take in any number of books and take away up to three, free. last week its stock was very poor, perhaps any locals with unwanted books could contribute.

amber | 24.04.13 - 10:47 a.m. | #

Zippy Grill is amazing - it's not so much that they've tried to preserve the interior of yesteryear, more that they just haven't got round to changing anything in years!

Great shame about Harris' Cafe Rest - it's just not the same since the old owners left. You can see photos of it as it was on the Classic Cafes website (which the Zippy Grill link goes through to).

David | 24.04.13 - 11:01 a.m. | #

For many years I worked in the East Tower at the BBC TV Centre and looked down on the passing H&C trains trundling past below. We also had a fine view into the remains of the original Wood Lane Central Line terminus with it's tightly curved platforms - now all gone under the Westfield development.
During the extended period that Westfield was being planned and discussed, the BBC expanded up the road into its new White City building and even newer Media Centre. A key part of the Westfield development was to build the new Wood Lane H&C station and the bus station to the north of the shopping centre to serve the great numbers of BBC staff across the road. Trouble was that as soon at it was all built, the BBC moved substantial chunks of staff to Salford and sold off the TV Centre. No wonder the bus station is 'unexpectedly underused'

Actonman | 24.04.13 - 3:27 p.m. | #

The East Tower certainly won't be missed in any redevelopment of the TV Centre site. It was a slum when I first worked there in the late 1960s and got worse. The air blown heating/cooling system was prone to legionella so was changed to a 'dry' system (the water was switched off) so it just blew dust and soot everywhere. When I had a sneaky look round my old office a few days before the BBC officially pulled out it was pretty derelict. I thought I'd be sad to see the old place, but I was actually rather appalled to recall the conditions we'd worked in way back when.

Actonman | 24.04.13 - 3:41 p.m. | #

Another excellent page about a particular part of London, with background history, links to photos and maps, and details of quirky places that I wouldn't have found in a hundred years otherwise!

Bob Lindsay-Smith | 24.04.13 - 7:02 p.m. | #

It just seems more obvious to use the Shepherd's Bush bus station rather than the White City one, it's unusual to have 2 brand new bus stations so near each other

Mikey C | 24.04.13 - 8:12 p.m. | #

If you go to Streetview at the front of the bus garage, you find this picture:

http://goo.gl/maps/Bk0zi

Aah, how sweet!

Karl, Dover | 24.04.13 - 9:09 p.m. | #

Following Karl's post and link, I could say "Ah, I remember it well."
It was from near enough in front of that bus garage that a number of us on scooters assembled, just prior to the point in Quadrophenia when we caught sight of Ray Winstone and his mate, with their bikes, and chased after them into Shepherd's Bush Market.
And, I can add, it wasn't any stunt double who rode and crashed the BSA, midway along the market: it was Ray, himself.

RogerW | 24.04.13 - 9:43 p.m. | #











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