Parexel, Uxbridge

Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 3 Oct 2011

This large art deco influenced office building dates from 1991. It is on the site of a former rail station and before that, Sedgewicks Brewery according to a local history blog called Edith's Streets. This is what Edith has to say. "101 The Quays. Parexel building in art deco liner style 1991 for pharmaceutical manufacturer. On the site of Uxbridge High Street Station. Uxbridge High Street Station. 1st May 1907. This was built by the Great Western Railway and it was intended to join West Drayton and Denham. Trains from here just ran round from Vine Street Station. Between 1917 and 1920 it was closed and in 1939 its last advertised passenger service ran although a freight service remained for another twenty five years. By the time this finished everything had been demolished. The station was at the north end of the High Street and had a single timber platform, a wooden building, waiting rooms, ticket office, toilets and a stationmaster’s office. There was a covered stairway to the street, and under the bridge was a building leased out as a café. Sedgewick's Brewery. Demolished"

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