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River Brent

The Brent flows south westwards

Alperton,

Nineteenth century tyre making centre, canal opened in 1861

Alperton – ‘Alprinton’ 1199, ‘Alpertone’ 1282, ‘Alpurton’ 1350, ‘Aperton alias Alperton’ 1578, that is 'farmstead or estate associated with a man called Ealhbeorht', from an Old English personal name. ‘Ealherhihgton’.  Old English ‘tun’ a farm or by an apple farm. The 1282 form, may represent a separate tradition of naming the place, and may mean 'Ealhbeorht's farm or estate'. The difference may appear to be slight, but could represent a considerable difference in area, since the original   territory would have been much larger than the estate within it, represented by the historic Alperton

Alperton Lane

Wembley Dust Destructor 1935. Built by Heenan and Froude, this plant was designed to deal with 100 tons of refuse in an 8-hour shift after it became no longer possible for Wembley to dispose of its refuse by barging it down the Grand junction Canal to dumping grounds at West Drayton.  An ultra modern plant of its time, it catered for the separation of all saleable material such as metal, rags, glass, paper and bones, but became more and more difficult to operate as the amount of plastic increased and coal cinders decreased and was closed in 1975, the chimney being demolished in 1978.

Barham Park

Name of Barham.

Local history library.  Georgian house is gone.  Nice walls and gardens.  Victorian house in the park.

Bridgewater Road

Sudbury Golf Club founded by the Acton Golf Club, 1891. Gentle green slopes

Ealing Road

Alperton bus garage. Only two bus garages were designed by London Transport before the Second World War. Alperton was opened in.1939,

Federal Road:

St Mary with St Nicholas

Lily Gardens

Vicars Green School

Manor Farm Road

Piggery Bridge. Canal bridge - an attractive 19th century brick arched bridge with deep-cut towrope marks

West London Motor Cruising Club site moorings

Mark Lane Alperton,

Randall's Laundry moved from Acton in 1987

North Circular Road

Stanley Avenue

St.James

Winscombe Crescent

1-7 designed by Parker and Unwin

Alperton Bus garage.  One of only two garages designed by LT pre-WW2.  1938.



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