Old Oak Common Lane, East Acton
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Old Oak Common Lane, East Acton
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 10 Aug 2013
This grid-square lies just to the south of the railway complexes at Old Oak Common and Willesden Junction, and contributions for this grid-square seem largely concerned with railways - even though much of the area is residential. The red-brick houses along Old Oak Common Lane and Fitzneal Street (nearby) must surely have been built as part of the local authority 'Homes fit for Heroes' campaign of the 1920's and '30's. So not only was this area open countryside when the railways first arrived, but it remained so for a good many years after the building of Wormwood Scrubs prison and Hammersmith Hospital (in the next grid-square east). Shot taken looking south from near the corner of Fitzneal Street - on a Saturday evening.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.517022
Longitude
-0.250187