epw046494 ENGLAND (1935). Residential development around Rayners Lane Station, Rayners Lane, 1935

There is a small wooden office building here. I am not sure about its reason for being. The London Transport Museum website shows a more recent photograph of it taken before it disappeared. It says that it is an old booking office. I very much doubt that. There was already a booking office on the opposite side of the bridge. There was no access to the platform from this side of the road and there was no need at all for a secondary office. Perhaps it was a coal merchant's office or a tobacconists kiosk . This office hut remained in situ long after the rebuilding of Rayners Lane station in 1938. It was still there in the 1980s. It was by then in a dilapidated condition and had at some time been used by a local scout group for storage. The larger white hut next to it in the photograph has the appearance of an estate sales office of the type that appeared next to stations in areas that were being developed for housing. (A more long-lived example of such survives next to Moor Park station.)

A row of railway trucks stabled in Reid's sidings. These were double siding built by the Metropolitan Railway to service the requirements of one of the local builders, E S Reid. A similar arrangement existed on the other side of the bridge for T. F. Nash Ltd.

Harrow Town Sports Club

The Rayners Hotel would be built here. It has now been closed for a number of years. The building is Grade II listed, but it lies abandoned and neglected. One wonders whether the game plan is to allow it to reach such a state of dereliction that it becomes unsafe and has to be demolished. The state of the pub mimics much of the surrounding area with regard to neglect and dereliction.

Possibly Vicarage Way. It was just north of Village Way but on the east side of Imperial Drive. #14 Vicarage Way took a bomb hit during WW II and their son was killed sleeping in one of the back bedrooms.

Probably Village Way.

The site of Rayners Lane Odeon Cinema. Now a listed building because of it's Art Deco frontage. Used as a Zoroastrian Centre. This could show the start of construction.

Imperial Drive many happy hours spent at Uncle John's (112) in the 50's & 60's