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DG, thank you for all these wonderful Metropolitan Line posts.
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My first-ever visit to the cinema was for a Saturday matinée in about 1975, to see Jungle Book in what is now the Zoroastrian Centre. Aah nostalgia. Thanks DG.
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During 1962-1964 I worked for Odeon Theatres, at Richmond Odeon. I made an occasional visit to the then named Odeon Rayners Lane where the projection box had Gaumont Kalee 21 projectors with President arc lamps. Richmond and Rayners Lane are both listed buildings. Richmond is still open as a cinema and is worth a visit but only if you sit in the old circle where you can still see the original building features. Not too far away from Rayners Lane is the ex Odeon Northfields, also a listed building and now in use as a church.
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I remember when that cinema was called a Gaumont, I remember that they had Saturday morning kids hour.
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Welcome to my neck of the woods! Had you chosen to walk south on Rayners Lane, you could have popped in for a cuppa!
I've just completed a walk following the Yeading Brook from its source at Headstone Manor, through to where it becomes the Crane River (why not the Yeading River?!), and down to where it empties into the Thames at St Margarets near Isleworth. Well worth doing. dg writes: I'll walk the Yeading one day (and the Pinn, and the Dollis Brook). But not this month, promise. |
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Rayner's Lane.
Campaign for Correct Apostrophisation. |
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"An Odeon flashes fire"
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Isn't the station credited to Uren, 1938? The cinema was designed by Bromige although the builder was Nash.
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So is Mr Daniel Rayner the most obscure person to have an Underground station named after them?
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beta.tfl.gov.uk for a new way to plan your journey....
dg writes: Thanks sid ;) |
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A bridge over the railway just west of the station was built as part of the line's construction, presumably in anticipation of the area's development. But it was never connected in to the rest of the local road network on the south side of the railway, and has now been demolished. There's just the spur on the north side of the railway off Village Way.
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