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Hammersmith
Latimer Road 15th December1868. Between Ladbroke Grove and Shepherd’s Bush on Hammersmith and City Line. Hammersmith and City. Opened at the junction of the Hammersmith and City and West London Railway. The station at the end of the viaduct on a spur to Shepherd's Bush Line. Part of middle circle in 1880s run by the GEW. Spur to Kensington in 1864, which connected to the West London Trains south of the river and to Victoria. Known locally as ‘piggery junction’. Features in films 'Parting Shots’, ‘American Roulette’, ‘Otley’.
Bramley House Co-operative.
People’s Hall cleaned-up red brick of 1901.
Laid out in 1952, opened 1955.
Holland Park Avenue
Site of Kensington Public Baths. Features in films 'Leo the Last’.
A tobacco warehouse of c. 1910, converted to studio and offices by Troughton McAslan, 1985, with a large glazed atrium inserted in the centre.
George Cohen 600 Group scrapyard
Connection to the Hammersmith & City line oncediverged towards Latimer Road. This wasoriginally used by cross-London servicesfrom the mid-1860s, and latterly, after 1910,by short workings from Edgware Road toAddison Road. These in turn ceased inOctober 1940, another victim of war damage,and were never restored. The rails, however,were not lifted until around 1956, althoughthe curving viaduct at the Latimer Road endstood for some years afterwards.
GWR route to Ealing Broadwayleft the West London line just after the H&C Lineviaduct ‘Viaduct Junction’. It had originally been planned as the Ealing and Shepherd’s Bush Railway, which opened to freightin 1917, but there were no passengers until 1920, came in whenthe Central London Railway extended theirtube service to EalingBroadway. The lines paralleled the Underground to North Acton and then turned north to the Great Western main line. This connectionclosed completelyin the mid-1960s, but some is used by Central Linetrains.
Picturesque Leading from Royal - Crescent, began in 1842 with stucco terraces with whimsical attic balconies
BBC Television Centre on athletics ground. On a site covering twelve acres forming a part of the White City Estatethe British Broadcasting Corporation built new headquarters. Most ambitious and up to date in the world in 1950. Erected in two stages. One half of the site developed to expand the television service. The estimated cost of the completed buildings between £4,000,000 and £5,000,000. Designs drawn up by Mr. Graham Dawbarn. The London CountyCouncil sold the land for £100,000.
B.B.C. Corporate Headquarters, on the site of the White City Stadium, the vast area of the move here determined after rejection of Foster's scheme for rebuilding on the Langham site in Portland Place by Scott, Brownrigg & Turner, 1989-90. Later phases designed by Remon Howard Wood Levin 1989-90. Faze two for News and Current Affairs, with a tower at the w corner.
B.B.C. Television Centre built on part of the White City exhibition site. An ambitious concept, the first purpose-built television studios in England, planned from 1950 by Norman & Dawbarn, continued into the 1960s following the same master plan. A circle of offices around a courtyard, surrounded by a lower outer ring of projecting studios linked by a runway to a scenery store. To the outsider it all looks a huge muddle, apart from the entrance, which has a little period Flavour, with a covered approach set against a plain brick wall studded with discs, typical patterning of the 1950s. The ingenious concentric plan is only apparent from the inner court, unfortunately dominated by an obelisk with a silly gilded figure by Huxley- Jones. Extensions completed 1989, by the B.B.C. Architectural and Civil Engineering Department.
Greyhounds.
White City. First opened in May 1908 for the Franco-British Exhibition - huge exhibition where all the buildings were white. It was the largest and most magnificent exhibition ground in London; laid out on a very imposingscale. Exhibitions were held from May to October, but in 1914, it was taken over for Government service. Later showman leased the site from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Wild West shows. The 4th Olympics were held there in 1932. Afterwards, there were occasional indoor exhibitions confined to the long galleriesconnecting Uxbridge Road with Wood Lane.
Wood LaneWhite City Station.1st May 1908. Until 1959, the Hammersmith & City had a stationat White City, but this was little used, andclosed following fire damage Opened on the Hammersmith and City Railway as ‘Wood Lane Exhibition Station’ for the Franco British Exhibition. It was on the viaduct west side of Wood Lane and passengers went straight into the exhibition. It was in regular use until the exhibition ended. After that used now and then. In 1947 it was renamed ‘White City’. It was 1959 last used and then burnt down. Line from Ealing opened 1917. It had been intended to put a terminus at Shepherd's Bush but never built, milk trains from Ealing etc. closed 1964 . It was replaced by White City station on nearby site. You can see the platform from a westbound train just before you arrive at White City. Turn left outside White City and you will find the old station entrance
Wormwood Scrubs leased from 1812 by the Government to the army for training, entrance in White City over 20 years ago
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