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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.
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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.
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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..."
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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)
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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.
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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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