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The large Tesco on Shepherds Bush Road at Brook Green was once part of one of the first light bulb factories in the UK.
I think the Osram factory sign is still in place on Osram Court which was also built on the site.

dg writes: I missed Brook Green by 200m.
The candle maker fully deserves the Royal Warrant if she is as helpful to the HRHs as she was to me. She and her shop are wonderful - she has been there for many years.
Are the Bedford Park buildings you pass not fractionally younger?

dg writes. Yes thanks.
If you're blind drunk, how can you tell what colour block you're heading for?

I'll get me coat...
I lived just off Askew Road (albeit at the other end) 25 years ago. It wasn't a soft scoop Icelandic ice cream sort of place in those days, but then so much of London wasn't.
Looks like yesterday's post may have frightened off the comments today?

dg writes: Alternatively, like you, people may have nothing to say about today's post.
I had wondered if you would make a passing reference to the near miss of Acton Works, prefaced with the words "Unfortunately for all you Underground fans out there..."
Re-living my student days: having scored a direct hit in the previous stretch on both halls of residence I stayed in, you are now passing through the area I lived in the rest of the time at University. I never realised they were so exactly aligned. Little seems to have changed, but then it is a conservation area.

Half of the Bedford Park Conservation Area, including Abinger Road, is in the London Borough of Hounslow.

The close-but-never-touching relationship between 51.5N and the A4 continues all the way to the road's terminus outside Avonmouth railway station, where, for the only time since Harrods, they finally meet.
these locations that we've not "properly heard of" are fascinating, perhaps more so than their grander cousins ... or maybe it's your way of telling it (OK, I just want to ingratiate myself with you)
There's an "Ali Hairdrssers" on Forest Road in Walthamstow - I always comment to my partner that it's a missed opportunity, she thinks it's deliberate in the hope that people will pop in and point it out and stay for a trim.

South Acton station once appeared in an episode of Minder (S4 Ep4) masquerading as Acton Green complete with 3 phoneboxes. I used to travel that way when volunteering at Acton Depot just to pay homage. Interesting to see how the area has changed over the years.
Nice preview of the Ealing leg on the map and photo links, thanks. Also looks interesting.
Just catching up with this series DG and really enjoying what you've posted so far. Thank you.

My mum and dad, relatively fresh off the boat from Ireland, met on a bus on Shepherd's Bush Road. So perhaps 51.5 degrees is part of my story too. :-)
I believe that was Charles Hocking House you saw being gobbled up on South Acton not Graham Tower as Graham was demolished a few years ago and the new build on its site looks nearly finished. Charles Hocking had a similar colour scheme and structure.

dg writes: Agreed, and fixed, thanks.

In 2014 Stik put a 125 foot mother and child, "Big Mother", on the end elevation of Charles Hocking which you could see from the trains on the District & Piccadilly Lines running from Acton Town to Chiswick Park. They recently draped opaque netting over her, so I guess she's gone now.










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