Police Station, Harrow Road
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Police Station, Harrow Road
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 3 Jul 2011
Not just any old police station, this is Paddington Green, the high-security police station in which terrorist suspects are confined in special underground cells. I half expected to be dragged into one of them for having the temerity to photograph the building (I wasn't). One of a cluster of four towers at the east end of Westway, it was built in 1966-71 by J. Innes-Elliot of the Metropolitan Police. There are reliefs at the bottom of the tower, the outline of which is disrupted by the projections which accommodate balconies (presumably for the section house) on the south and north sides.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.520316
Longitude
-0.17136