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District Road, WEMBLEY, HA0 2LF

The houses in Sudbury Heights Avenue are to the left while those in District Road are to the right, with the image taken from the footbridge carrying the footpath between them over the railway. Another such footpath footbridge is in the distance. The footpaths actually predate both the railway and the houses as is evidenced by Victorian Ordnance Survey maps which show a network of footpaths radiating from the then hamlet of Sudbury.

This is Sudbury and Harrow Road Station which has the dubious honour of being the least used station in London. Not surprising as hardly any trains stop here so that's a kind of Chicken & Egg statistic. Maybe with new housing going up over the fence there will be some more passengers around.

Not knowing Sudbury I ventured down Allendale Road and thought I would take a photograph of the parade of shops. Looking for the best sun angle I went to the far end and spotted this building, which has been in use as a snooker club, and, despite the somewhat out of the way location, thought that it looked like a former cinema. Back home a Google search rapidly revealed that this was indeed the case and what's more is that there are comprehensive photographs of it in its hey-day on the English Heritage website. One of the photographs, taken in 1935, the year of its opening, reveals a magnificent semi-circular frontage set behind the current glass panelling here http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=107858&index=0&mainQuery=sudbury&searchType=all&form=basic&theme=&county=&district=&placeName= This shows the building from the opposite direction. However satellite imagery of the roof shows that the top of this facade is still in place. The cinema was "short-lived" according to another source on the internet, which, given its tucked-away location, is hardly surprising.

Footbridge from Sudbury Heights Ave to Maybank Open Space (Piccadilly Line)