Imre Close, W12

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Jonathan Penner

Pennard Road, W12

Added: 11 Sep 2021 16:03 GMT

Pennard Road, W12
My wife and I, young Canadians, lodged at 65 (?) Pennard Road with a fellow named Clive and his girlfriend, Melanie, for about 6 months in 1985. We loved the area and found it extremely convenient.

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Roy Mathieson Southwark Added: 27 Jun 2024 16:25 GMT	St Saviours My great grandmother was born in Bowling Green Lane in 1848. The family moved from there to Earl Terrace, Bermondsey in 1849. I have never been able to locate Earl Terrace on maps. Reply
Buckhurst Street, E1 Added: 26 Jun 2024 13:10 GMT	Buckhurst Street, E1 Mt grandfather, Thomas Walton Ward had a musical instrument workshop in Buckhurst Street from 1934 until the street was bombed during the war. Grandfather was a partner in the musical instrument firm of R.J. Ward and Sons of Liverpool. He died in 1945 and is buried in a common grave at Abney Park Cemetery. Reply
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LOCAL PHOTOS

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Wood Lane station, c.1914 TUM image id: 1502717800 Licence:	Percy Thrower and John Noakes in the Blue Peter Garden, White City (1975) Credit: BBC TUM image id: 1527783044 Licence:	Shepherd’s Bush Market in the 1950s TUM image id: 1483010924 Licence:	The construction of the White City Estate began in the late 1930s and was finished after the Second World War. It is named after the White City Exhibition that took place on the site in 1908. The estate was built by the London County Council. 23 blocks were completed by the outbreak of the war, with the rest completed afterwards. Credit: London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham TUM image id: 1680170016 Licence:	Wormholt Wood notice TUM image id: 1570540541 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Man waiting to cross Goldhawk Road, about 1935. Why did the postcard photographer not wait until the man had gone? The postcard is now all about him, really, front and centre as he is. The road on the left is Woodger Road Old London postcard TUM image id: 1669307138 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Construction work on the Wormholt Estate (1920) The East Acton area lay in a ’railway desert’ until the arrival of the Central Line. While areas to the north and south urbanised, a pocket of countryside survived very close to Shepherds Bush until after the First World War. This continuing bad connection with the rest of the area, before the First World War, allowed White City stadium to be developed as a green field site. Credit: London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham TUM image id: 1586274051 Licence:	Bloemfontein Road - part of the White City estate Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1563736710 Licence:	White City Close Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1563739473 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Wood Lane station, MacFarlane Place entrance (1937) TUM image id: 1583967887 Licence:
Make West-Way Safe! A road traffic safety campaign about traffic levels between Savoy Circus, East Acton and Wood Lane. This is the original section of the Westway before the elevated 1969 extension was built. These are residents of the White City Estate. TUM image id: 1669212071 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Hammersmith and City line of London Underground runs along behind the stalls at the left, and there are more shops in arches under the railway. The market runs both sides of the railway between Goldhawk Road and Uxbridge Road. The arch visible beyond the stalls is on Uxbridge Road. It is a large market with useful specialist shops as well as many greengrocers and clothes stalls. Credit: Wiki Commons/David Hawgood TUM image id: 1682527061 Licence:	Wood Lane (Central Line) station with a pivoting wooden platform extension. Prior to the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition, the western terminus of the Central London Railway was at Shepherd’s Bush. North of Shepherd’s Bush was Wood Lane depot. When the exhibition opened, a temporary station was constructed within the northern perimeter of the depot on the site of the reversing siding. A new tunnel was bored to connect directly to the end of the eastbound tunnel at Shepherd’s Bush station, forming a loop. As constructed for the exhibition, Wood Lane station had just a single track with platforms on each side: one for loading and the other for unloading. Trains entered the station anti-clockwise in a westbound direction from the tunnel under the depot, and exited heading south back into the tunnel in the direction of Shepherd’s Bush station. Following the success of the exhibition a number of other entertainment venues, notably White City Stadium, grew up in the area and the temporary station at Wood Lane became a permanent fixture. Wood Lane became the western terminus of the CLR. Until the late 1920s, the railway used carriages that were accessed by gated entrances at the carriage ends. When new rolling stock was introduced with sliding pneumatic doors, Wood Lane’s loop platforms had to be extended to provide access to all doors but it was not possible to extend the platform on the inside of the loop (the south side) as it interfered with an access track to the depot. A pivoting section of platform - seen here - was constructed that could be moved to allow access to the depot to be made when required. TUM image id: 1681222824 Licence:	Gardener’s Cottage, Wood House, Wood Lane (1880) In 1894, the grounds called Woodhouse Park were opened to the public, with ornamental gardens, ballooning, lawn tennis and a model of Stonehenge. TUM image id: 1668713709 Licence: CC BY 2.0