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Canal:
Hanwell Locks, flight of six locks raise canal 53 feet in a third of a mile. Each lock holds 65,000 gallons of water. Hour to clear the locks. Ancient monument in a conservation are
Brent leaves the canal at Oak Cottages
Locks 97 and 96 between the access to Brent River Park notice about piling competition
Crassgates
Was called St.Vincent's Lodge. Yellow brick.
Great Western Industrial Park:
Elemeta
Railway
Brentford branch - Having passed behind Southall depot, it veers towards the south-east, avoiding Osterley Park , and then drops at an initial gradient of 1 in 102. The GW&BR directors did not want to upset the Earl of Jersey, who owned the Park. Beyond 'Three Bridges', the line emerges from cutting, and runs through the Brent Valley.
Uxbridge Road:
Ealing Hospital.
St.Bernard's Hospital. Asylum for the insane poor Built in 1829 by William Alderson with additions from 1854-1857. Pioneering work there by John Connolly – in a park near by is ‘Connolly Dell’. Also used by Dr. Elliott who believed in humane methods of treatment - then Connolly came there after a row. The complex includes an 1888 memorial block and a gateway to the Uxbridge Road. It had 3000 beds and the hospital had its own gas works, farm and brewery. It also had own dock and used the canal for coal in 1900s. On the canal is a bricked up entrance to the hospital at Lock 94 – called Asylum Lock. Transferred from Metropolitan Asylums Board to London County Council. There are Pagoda roofed huts and a Chapel.
Trapp's Halt. He was the local farmer at Warren Farm near back entrance to the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum.
Windmill Lane
Windmill Bridge ancient monument. Ramp and balustrade done up
Canal Lock 92 - Three Bridges, road, rail and canal intersection
Brentford Branch Line passes beneath the Grand Junction Canal, where an aqueduct was built. This feature is known as 'Three Bridges', and generally attributed to Brunel. The railway is in a cutting, 34ft below the road. The space in between is taken up by the canal in an 8 ft deep iron trough.
Great Western Industrial Park, Developed from the 1980s.
Elemeta has one of the firm's first English examples of structural silicone glazing, with a double-height atrium behind. By Bell, Daniels, Slater Partnership, 1984
Osterley Gardens
Development on the site of St.Bernard’s Hospital.
Osterley View
Development on the site of St.Bernard’s Hospital.