EAW042780 ENGLAND (1952). The Broadway and New Broadway, Ealing, 1952

This is the location of the former Ealing Police Station in the High Street opposite Lamertons.

Manton Avenue?

The Walpole Cinema. It was a bit of a Flea pit by the 1960's, & it closed around 1972.

Edited in error! :-)

Fire Station (opened in 1933)

The old Fire Station. This was replaced in 1933 by the present building in the Uxbridge Road.

Ealing Town Hall (1888 - with later additions)

These attractive Victorian villa properties, typical of those that once bordered this part of the Uxbridge Road, have all now disappeared. The last probably that latterly used as offices by a firm of solicitors. It has now been replaced by a stark Travelodge budget hotel, opposite Craven Road.

Westminster Bank (formerly London & County Bank). This building served originally as the Ealing Town Hall from 1874. The council soon outgrew these premises and moved to the current building of 1888.

The Feathers Hotel. Once an establishment of high repute. as the years progressed it went steadily downmarket (i common with much of the rest of Ealing) and ended its days as the Townhouse pub. Such was its appalling reputation that a renewal of its licence was contested successfully. The building is now used as premises for a branch of Metro Bank.

By now this building was trading as Bentalls. It had previously traded as Eldred Sayers department store.

The old Ealing Police Station.

Ealing Broadway Methodist Church. The building would in 1986 be reconsecrated as a Roman Catholic church by the local Polish community.

John Sanders department store. This would have been post-war rebuild to replace the building destroyed by a V1 flying bomb in July 1944.

Public bath house.

F H Rowse department store.

The Lido Cinema. This building of 1928 was a rebuild of the original cinema (the West Ealing Kinema) and skating rink of 1913. The later building survived in various guises until 2004.

Regina Road

Gordon Road

Dean Gardens

West Ealing Station

Ealing Theatre/Ealing Hippodrome. Built 1899 Stan Laurel made an early appearance here. Site now occupied by WH Smith.

Originally the Forum Cinema. I knew it as the ABC in the 1960's. It was tripled in about 1975, & had many names; Cannon, Virgin, & Cineworld etc, until it's closure in around 2008. A new multiplex Cinema is planned for the site, & the facade will hopefully be incorporated into the new building. There is also a possibility of the facade from the long gone Walpole Cinema that was on Bond Street nearby, also being incorporated.