EAW017058 ENGLAND (1948). The Batchelor's Peas Ltd Factory, Hortus Cemetery and environs, Southall, 1948

The original Burton's store, Montague Burton must have been a very strong and successful brand. It could afford to build many stores to its own corporate design during the 1930s. Many of these buildings still exist. For some reason there was very often a ballroom or school of dance above the shop. I don't know if this applied to the Southall store. This one now has a 'hotel' on the upper floors of what now is Universal Plaza. The building has been modified somewhat.

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Southall Railway Station. The street level building was reduced in size in the late 70s/early 80s, as the northern section had become unsafe.

This building is on the site of the present Southall Fire station. It was the site of Abbott Brothers who started producing bee hives and later hospital furniture. They later expanded into Abbess Works (the white buildings at the rear at the end of Shrubbery Road) who produced office furniture. The site was redeveloped recently and is now an Asian religious foundation centre. The later main office block of the factory in the High Street (to the right of the St George & The Dragon pub) is now a private training college.

Otto Monsted's Maypole Dairy was opened in 1894 to produce margarine. Under the circumstances, the choice of the word 'Dairy' seems a little odd as the margarine of the day owed more to rendered whale blubber than the milk obtained from cattle. The site was later used by Batchelor's Peas and later still Wall's for sausage production. The main site being in Acton.

Site of Butler's tailors and outfitters store Built in 1905 and still standing.

Villiers Road Congregational Church

This terrace was on the site later occupied by the Abbess Works offices. This building is now a private college.

Abbess Works - industrial furniture factory. Now an Asian religious foundation.

Martin Court. I should imagine that this was so-named in salute to the Martin Bros pottery in Havelock Road.

Southall Horse Market

Grove House

The Plough public house

The Railway Arms. More recently renamed Glassy Junction. It closed as a pub and is now an Indian restaurant.

Havelock Estate built here in 1952

Southall Greyhound Track. Opened 1939.

Merrick Road was eventually to continue along here.

King's Hall Methodist Centre. Built in 1916, it functioned as a cinema from 1926-1937 still under Methodist control. Thereafter it reverted to Methodist Church use.

Empire Picture Theatre. Building still exists as an Asian bank premises on the junction of The Broadway and Northcote Avenue.

Southall Water Tower

Southall Conservative Club building.

Quaker Oats Factory.

Maypole Institute, built in 1910 as the social club for the adjacent Monsted Margarine Works. Used as a military hospital during WW1.

Monsted Margarine Works covered railway sidings.

The Palace Cinema opened in 1929. It was built on the site of a small picture house called The Paragon Picture Palace, built in 1912. It became the Liberty Cinema in 1972. Closed down and was used as a market. It re-opened as a cinema in 2001 as the Himalaya Palace. This, in turn, closed down in 2010. The building is currently empty and disused.

Odeon Cinema. It opened in 1936 and closed in 1961, since when it has been a bowling alley, a MFI furniture store, a carpet warehouse and now a LIDL store.

The Three Horseshoes. One of the very few pubs remaining in Southall.

St George & The Dragon public house.

The original Southall Fire Station.

Southall Town Hall

The White Hart Pub

The original Southall Police Station.

Southall County Grammar School (now Villiers High School.)

Southall Grammar Technical School

Southall & Ealing College (now Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College) built on this site.

Beaconsfield Road Girls' School (now Beaconsfield Primary School.)

Southall Post Office and mail sorting centre.

These buildings have gone. There is now a small park and play area here.

This was the site of the St Marylebone workhouse school. During WW1 it became an Australian military hospital along with the Girls' school premises in Beaconsfield Road (now Beaconsfield Primary School.) After the war it became St Joseph's RC Girls' School. It was closed and demolished in the early thirties. An underground bunker was built here during WW2 as a Regional Government HQ. This was further developed during the Cold War. http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/Southall/ The abandoned bunker still exists under what is now Hambrough Primary School.