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EAW012003 ENGLAND (1947). Wilkins and Campbell Britannia Works (Wax Refinery) and the town, West Drayton, 1947. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
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| Title | [EAW012003] Wilkins and Campbell Britannia Works (Wax Refinery) and the town, West Drayton, 1947. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing. |
| Reference | EAW012003 |
| Date | 3-November-1947 |
| Link | |
| Place name | WEST DRAYTON |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 506084, 179420 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -0.47139615091328, 51.503262825208 |
| National Grid Reference | TQ061794 |
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 West Drayton Police Station would be built here during the 1960s to replace the old Harlington Police Station in the Bath Road.
The newer police station has now also closed. |
The Laird |
Wednesday 3rd of August 2016 02:03:38 PM |
| Royal Air Force Station : West Drayton.
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After Air Force use the site became the London Air Traffic
Control Centre [ LATCC ] and when Air Traffic use ceased,
late 20thC, the site became a housing development which is ongoing [2014]
|
brian |
Friday 3rd of January 2014 02:40:18 PM |
| Station Road, West Drayton |
brian |
Friday 3rd of January 2014 11:32:32 AM |
| Porters Way, West Drayton. |
brian |
Friday 3rd of January 2014 11:30:13 AM |
| Harmondswoth Road, West Drayton. |
brian |
Thursday 2nd of January 2014 01:19:52 PM |
| Harmondsworth Road, West Drayton.
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This road is/was an access towards Harmondsworth village
and past Harmondsworth, onward towards the A4 Bath Road.
Its junction with the A4 being to the east of the Peggy Bedford Public House.
This junction at the A4 Bath Road, locally, has become known as Black and Deckers corner, in view of that organisation's premises that were located here, but since demolished. |
brian |
Thursday 2nd of January 2014 01:18:57 PM |
| Cherry Lane, West Drayton.
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To the top of the picture leads towards it junction with Shepiston Lane for Hayes and Harlington. |
brian |
Thursday 2nd of January 2014 12:37:39 PM |
| Sipson Road, West Drayton.
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This road was terminated, just past the Cherry Lane school, when the M4 motorway built in 1960/70's |
brian |
Thursday 2nd of January 2014 12:00:31 AM |
Before the construction of the M4 motorway this road was a direct access to the A4 Bath Road, through Sipson village. Emerging at the Sipson Road junction with the A4, just about opposite to The [Three] Magpies Public House, on the A4, adjacent to the then main entrance to London Airport, as it was then called. Later it was re-named London Heathrow Airport, as we know it today. |
brian |
Thursday 2nd of January 2014 01:04:08 PM |
| West Drayton [Harmondsworth Road] Cemetery, West Drayton. |
brian |
Wednesday 1st of January 2014 11:56:44 PM |
| Cherry Lane School, West Drayton |
brian |
Wednesday 1st of January 2014 11:53:29 PM |