Southall

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St Mark's Church 13th nave. 15 organ 15 font. Fifteenth century & 16th century glass. Restored 1824. 16th century timbers yew tree

Havelock Road

Martinware factory, 1877/1927 brick making area, Factory behind the canal, struck by lightning in 1923

Pathway further education centre

Havelock Schools

King Street

St John, given by local vitriol maker, 1838

Market, charter of 1698, oldest horse auctions in London

Merrick Road:

Dairy Meadow Schools

new commercial premises of 1989-90 by Steven Adams, incorporates the facades of a few buildings remain from the former Margarine Works of Otto Monstead which  became the Walls factory. They are of 1894 onwards, in a curly gabled Dutch style by Bird &  Whittensbury , of hard red brick and yellow terracotta. This was a model factory, hygienic - including air-conditioning - with extensive staff welfare facilities

Community Centre built as a recreation hall in a self-conscious Beaux Arts style in 1910 by A. Marshall Mackenzie for the Margarine Company.

Osterley Park Road:

Public Library Martinware pottery collection. 1873 Fulham Factory

Pluckington Place

Acme Works. Was once garage home of private buses. Acme Garage in the 1920s. 1927 eng. shops with roof mounted belt driven machinery.

Railway

Southall Station. 1^st May 1839. Between Hayes and Harlington and Hanwell on Great Western Railway. 1859 Brentford Docks branch added which meant extensive rebuilding. 1860-1942 Passengers on the Brentford Branch. Also name added to as 'Brentford Junction' . Station signs in 2000s in Punjabi and English.  originally comprised two plat forms. With the advent of the Brentford branch twenty years later the premises needed to be enlarged, and a bay was added on the down side. Further, more extensive alterations followed during 1876, when a complete rebuilding was undertaken to accommodate a new pair of standard gauge relief lines on the north side of the formation. Mixed gauge tracks had existed between Paddington and Reading since 1861, and Brunel's broad gauge was finally abandoned in 1892. New platforms were provided, and the far side of the most southerly island was used by branch trains. At the London end of this stood Southall East signal box, which remained in use until 1968. The station name boards still carried the suffix 'Brentford Junction' into BR days, but this was eventually removed in the late 1950s. In more recent times, the northern end of the street level building has been demolished, and the other structures have been heavily rationalised.

Depot. a small, single-road broad gauge brick building opened in July 1859 known as 'Brentford Branch'.  in July 1883, it was demolished for a larger shed of brick, with six roads, and a 45ft turntable. in 1953 this was all rebuilt again when the repair shop was replaced by a diesel depot constructed with a steel frame on a brick base. a 43,000 gallon water tank. remained, and continued to be used. Southall shed officially closed in November 1986. a group of enthusiasts, who had previously occupied a former margarine company building, used the shed to house items.

mosaic panel Alongside the tracks, a bold panel of c.1906 showing a fisherman holding a large rod. It formerly decorated the factory of Scott's Emulsion - makers of cod liver oil.

Arches Business Centre - a former shed of red and yellow brick, imaginatively converted in 1989.

Railway Tavern locally called the Glasshouse, Very old pub but not grand

Railway Museum closed;

Randolph Road

Water towera forbidding castellated octagonal tower of c. 1895, ingeniously converted to six storeys of flats in 1979-83 by F. Vickery and E. Moffet.

Railway Line

Line to Brentford - after leaving the station, trains passed behind the locomotive depot and took an indirect route through sidings.

Southall:

Originally called Norwood.  Southall means 'southern nook of  and', by contrast with Northolt. ‘Suhaull' 1198, ‘Sudhale’ 1204, ‘Suhal’l 1246, ‘Southhalle’ 1345 ‘sulf’ -, ‘heath’.                         

Cork co.

Metropolitan workhouse school near the railway

AEC works. Biggest motor firm in west London making own axles, gearboxes and engines for the buses and heavy vehicles it makes. Britain’s second producer co chassis engines and parts of heavy commercial vehicles made the engines for Dodge Trucks made by Chrysler at Kew.

The Green

Manor House, 1581 Southall Manor in Norwood built 1587 for Richard Awsiter. The manor house comes as a surprise among the seedy Victorian and Edwardian parades. Elizabethan timber framed  house with 18^thadditions in magnificent grounds.

Chapel

Elmfield Lodge

Dominion Cinema. Opened 8 October 1935.  Seating capacity 1,852. Closed 27 January 1962. Bingo. Asian cinema. Demolished 1983