please empty your brain below
When I was working in Lund Sweden for Sony Mobile, the street where this was based was called Mobile Phone Street.

kissenme | 11.04.24 - 7:05 a.m. | #

There's a Cunard Road near Old Oak Common

It is here on the NLS map.

dg writes: not residential.

Entertained | 11.04.24 - 7:14 a.m. | #

At the bottom end of Culvers Ave in Carshalton, Philips Avenue on the site of the old Philips factory. There’s also an Eindhoven Close, which I’m guessing is a nod to Philips’ home town in the Netherlands.

Kev Hennessy | 11.04.24 - 7:18 a.m. | #

Look at a map of the Roundshaw Estate on the site of Croydon Airport and you are spoilt for choice. Some are obvious such as Handley Page Road, Vickers Close, Daimler Way or Avro Way. Some less so such as Douglas Close or Bristol Close. I suspect there area at least a dozen there if one investigates fully.

Pedantic of Purley | 11.04.24 - 7:30 a.m. | #

does the former Siemens Brothers Way count?

dg writes: not residential.

Martin | 11.04.24 - 7:31 a.m. | #

There s a Wilkinson Way in Chiswick W4 on the site of which used to be a razor blade factory.

Dave | 11.04.24 - 7:32 a.m. | #

Stanley Close in SE9, on the site of the former W.F. Stanley and Co Ltd Optical Instrument Works.

Aerial photo from 1949

Blocks of flats now.

K. | 11.04.24 - 7:37 a.m. | #

Energen rolls! I can remember my mother buying them back in the 1950s - they were allegedly for slimming/weight control and sold as health products at chemists, in a cardboard carton.
They were very light and the eating experience was like a mouthful of cotton wool.

Rob Gullen | 11.04.24 - 7:39 a.m. | #

Ediswan Way, Ponders End - the previous location of an Ediswan factory (making electric cookers I think)

Frank F | 11.04.24 - 7:40 a.m. | #

Would you count anything named after the East India company (East India Quay, East India Dock Road etc) or is that named after a geographical feature which is named after a company

Ted | 11.04.24 - 7:44 a.m. | #

Vickers Road, Erith?

Kathryn | 11.04.24 - 7:46 a.m. | #

Nestles Avenue, Hayes. Instant coffee until recently

M | 11.04.24 - 7:48 a.m. | #

Kingston has a few Sopwiths, including one in the centre behind the railway station, named after the local aircraft company. A few of their headquarter and design buildings still stand on Canbury Park Road.

Peter of London | 11.04.24 - 7:49 a.m. | #

Just about to say the same as Kathryn. Possibly not on the site of any of the Vickers works, but I reckon named after the arms-to-office-furniture business. And close to the wonderfully name Crusoe and Friday roads

Waterhouse | 11.04.24 - 7:50 a.m. | #

There's a category where names relate to the owner and/or the company they founded. Before looking at the comments I immediately thought of de Havilland and I see others have mentioned other aircraft pioneers too.

There's also a category related to transport entities. Maybe Great Eastern Street, for example.

DavidC

DavidC | 11.04.24 - 7:59 a.m. | #

After going on a deep dive on the Vickers wiki page, I'm also going to add Maxim Road, Crayford. Although the jury is out on whether they are named after the gun or the company who made the gun. They had a factory in the Pom Pom area of Erith near Vickers Road, and a factory in Crayford, on the site of Samas Way, Crayford named after Samas Roeno and their filing cabinet era. Also, Fraser Road Erith, was named after Fraser and Chalmers.

Kathryn | 11.04.24 - 8:03 a.m. | #

Peter got in first with Kingston's Sopwith Close and Sopwith Way. There is also Sury Basin, an anagram of the supermarket that dominates one side of the street.

A little way east of Wormwood Scrubs you can find Hillman Drive, Humber Drive and Sunbeam Crescent.

Midland Road in Leytonstone is named after the pre-1923 railway company that served the station to which the road led.

Timbo | 11.04.24 - 8:07 a.m. | #

There is a Tate Road in Silvertown. But not I think one named for Lyle.

Andrew | 11.04.24 - 8:08 a.m. | #

Thanks for all your suggestions!

The ones I'm adding to the list on the blog are those 'on the sites of things'.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.04.24 - 8:10 a.m. | #

Eastman Road in Harrow - the former Kodak Factory, now being turned into residential housing.

Ian | 11.04.24 - 8:28 a.m. | #

Sopwith Road, Wright Road, Avro Place and De Havilland Road in Heston

John | 11.04.24 - 8:28 a.m. | #

Lucas Gardens,East Finchley on the site of the car components firm.

Keith from N2 | 11.04.24 - 8:28 a.m. | #

There's Hawker Place in Walthamstow; now flats on the site of the Hawker Siddeley Power Transformers site.

Tim | 11.04.24 - 8:29 a.m. | #

Baird Road, Enfield EN1 is on the ite of the former Biard factory, which became part of Thron's electronics works.

Belling Crescent, off Ediswan Way, is on the site of the old Belling & Lee radio factory

steve | 11.04.24 - 8:33 a.m. | #

The newish Hughes Road in Hainault is named after the Kelvin Hughes scientific instruments factory that used to be there. Kelvin Hughes still exists (as part of Hensoldt UK), but its Hainault factory closed about 10 years ago and the site is now covered in flats.

Alan S | 11.04.24 - 8:48 a.m. | #

Watney Road in Mortlake.

Sprout Eater | 11.04.24 - 8:49 a.m. | #

I can now see what a can of worms has been opened.

Earlier, I thought of Midland Way, next to St Pancras Station but, sadly, it is not residential.

Continuing with the railway theme which others have also spotted there are a couple of other Midland possibilities.

I strongly suspect Midland Terrace in Old Oak Common is a reference to the Midland Railway which establised its tentacles well beyon the Midlands. Also Midland Road (off Ferry Street) in North Woolwich. Didn't Jago Hazzard do a video including the Midland Railway running a ferry across the Thames at this point?

Pedantic of Purley | 11.04.24 - 8:50 a.m. | #

Lumina Way, Enfield - on the site of the Thorn Lighting factory

Frank F | 11.04.24 - 8:56 a.m. | #

I suppose the Great Western Road would never qualify!

I can see there being issues in various possibilities in arguing what they were really named after. Were they named after the person (possibly for philanthropical reasons or local links) or the company named after them?

In the case of the Roundshaw Estate, I suspect they weren't actually named after the company but the name of a plane or person that evoked images of Croydon airport. To complicate matters, a lot of aircraft companies did have factories or maintenance hangers in the area but I suspect these were not a consideration when the names were chosen.

Pedantic of Purley | 11.04.24 - 8:59 a.m. | #

Residential but not in London, Ecmod Rd in Eastbourne is thus named for being the site of the municipal bus garage (the first in the country, I believe) - Eastbourne Corporation Motor Omnibus Department.

Betterbee | 11.04.24 - 9:04 a.m. | #

The former Clarnico Lane in E20?

TheLupineOne | 11.04.24 - 9:09 a.m. | #

How about Factory Yard in Hanwell.
More specifically a residential block called the ‘Perfume Factory’ after the perfume bottle factory that originally sat on the site?

Ranger Nigel | 11.04.24 - 9:11 a.m. | #

Mullards Close is just to the north of Philips Close.

The Mullards factory made the valves that went into the Philips radios manufactured next door.

rory | 11.04.24 - 9:16 a.m. | #

Sigrist Square in Kingston is built on the site of the Reid & Sigrist company's premises in Canbury Park Road. The company supplied aircraft instrumentation and design services, mainly to Hawker Siddeley, and became part of Decca in 1954.

Timbo | 11.04.24 - 9:16 a.m. | #

Lebus Street Tottenham Hale N17

felix | 11.04.24 - 9:22 a.m. | #

There is a Sunlight Close in South Wimbledon (SW19) which is a residential close on the former Sunlight Laundry site

GT | 11.04.24 - 9:28 a.m. | #

There is a Sopwith Avenue in Walthamstow, named after the makers of ww1 aircraft who were apparently based there.

dg writes: The Gnome factory made rotary engines for Sopwith Camels.

Alistair Twin | 11.04.24 - 9:32 a.m. | #

Quayle Crescent where B&Q used to be in Whetstone

David W | 11.04.24 - 10:32 a.m. | #

Not a street, but Unigate Wood off Valley Road SW16 is named after the former dairy, redeveloped in the 1970s. I remember this under its previous name of United Dairies, before it merged with Cow & Gate.

Ian Paton | 11.04.24 - 10:40 a.m. | #

Westfield Avenue E20 has flats on it.

Martin | 11.04.24 - 10:46 a.m. | #

The Morgan Crucible Company in Battersea gives its name to the Morgan's Walk estate that now occupies the site, but not to the individual streets within it, so it may not meet your criteria.

Jonathan Wadman | 11.04.24 - 11:11 a.m. | #

Another vote for Eastman Road on the old Kodak site in Wealdstone. I worked there for over 30 years! It operated as a factory site into the 2010's.
Now being developed as a (mainly) housing development. Eastman Road will be residential, but it's too new to appear on any maps yet.
After Ford's in Dagenham it was for many years the 2nd largest manufacturing site (for employees) in Greater London. 7500 when I started in the '70s.
The full name of the owners was the Eastman Kodak Company.

MikeK | 11.04.24 - 12:29 p.m. | #

Ex-Enfieldian here. Ediswan in Enfield made electric lightbulbs, and Belling made the cookers.

dg writes: switched thanks.

Brighton_Ro | 11.04.24 - 12:44 p.m. | #

There's Grunwick Close in Dollis Hill, NW2. Built on the site of the former film processing lab and famous for its strike in the 1970s.

Anders | 11.04.24 - 1:47 p.m. | #

Mmm, the alternating smell of either coffee or chocolate emanating from the Nestle factory on any given day!

Cornish Cockney | 11.04.24 - 1:57 p.m. | #

Ford Road Dagenham - residential road on large estate with many Ford workers, formerly

Lorraine | 11.04.24 - 2:19 p.m. | #

In W10 postcode not far from Sainsbury's supermarket - Sunbeam Crescent, Humber Drive and Hillman Close. All built on site of Rootes Car Factory

David | 11.04.24 - 2:53 p.m. | #

I lived very close to Dunelm Grove when it was first unveiled as a new West Norwood estate in the early 1980s. The name is an amalgam of "Dunbar Street" which still exists for part of the site, and "Elm Grove", the earlier name for the same street.

cau1khead | 11.04.24 - 3:08 p.m. | #

Woodcocks, Beckton E16. Formerly Woodcocks Transport and repurposed early 90s in to housing.

scrumpy | 11.04.24 - 3:29 p.m. | #

Glacier Way in Alperton only makes sense when you realise it was built on the site of the Glacier Ball-bearing factory. It is surrounded by housing but looks like it is mainly access to mega-stores so may not count.

Tim K9VB | 11.04.24 - 4:07 p.m. | #

The former Nunhead bus garage (SE15)last used by Banfields Coaches has been redeveloped as Banfield Road. The clock tower from the garage survives.
There are probably some more coach garages around London. The only one which comes to mind however is Stanley Gardens in Hersham on the site of Ben Stanley Coaches, but that is in SURREY.

AlanJS | 11.04.24 - 4:36 p.m. | #

According to our local blog the old Wilkinson Sword factory in Acton made swords, bayonets and knives.
'They moved from their base in the West End to Southfield Road in Acton in 1901. During the first World War, this factory was engaged in producing over two million bayonets. They moved from the site in 1993 but its presence is remembered by the name of local road Wilkinson Way.'

ActonMan | 11.04.24 - 4:56 p.m. | #

Cape Close, Barking

Paul | 11.04.24 - 10:33 p.m. | #

The most interesting thing about the Taylors Lane area is that most of the side streets were obliterated from the map in the 1960s and replaced by parkland with a few tower blocks, and then in about 2000 the towers were demolished and the original roads were put back in the same place with the original names so that a modern map looks the same as an old map but an in-between map looks completely different.

Basil Jet | 12.04.24 - 5:06 a.m. | #

For the benefit of future historians, you should correct the Belling product in the blog - from radios to cookers.

Also - unsure why you didn't include the suggestion of Lebus Street Tottenham.

https://harrislebus.com/the-factory

Frank F | 12.04.24 - 3:36 p.m. | #

There is a Berger Road near Homerton Station that I was told is named after Lewis Berger. Don't know if it qualifies. My brother was a trainee chemist at Lewis Berger in the late 50s and that's why we moved to Hornchurch.

Margaret | Homepage | 12.04.24 - 10:43 p.m. | #

Tannoy Square, SE17. Tannoy was originally called the Tulsemere Manufacturing Company, working from a garage in Tulsemere Road, Dulwich. The name was changed to Tannoy in 1928 and a small factory was opened in Dalton Road, West Norwood, later moving to Canterbury Grove. Tannoy used to install speakers in factories to relay broadcasts of Music While You Work

John Abbott | 13.04.24 - 8:49 a.m. | #











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