East Acton: Barbara Speake Stage School
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East Acton: Barbara Speake Stage School
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 13 Oct 2010
Barbara Speake first opened a dancing school here, in St Dunstan's Hall in East Acton Lane, in 1945, so she currently has had a presence on the site for 65 years! For full information about the school please refer to its website here http://www.barbaraspeake.com/index.html . In 2007 Barbara Speake was awarded the MBE for services to drama in London. A look at old Victorian Ordnance Survey maps shows that the site of the hall was once the terminus of a very short lived branch line railway line that curved away south-eastwards from the Great Western Railway main line from somewhere near where the A40 Western Avenue crosses it now. From maps that are currently available on line the railway was not there in 1874, but by 1896 it was, but was already described as "abandoned". Not a trace of the railway seems to exist today.
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