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Aldington Road, LONDON, SE18 5TS

Brentons of Blackheath used to be based in Denham Street, East Greenwich Image but moved c.2011 to this industrial unit on the Westminster Estate.

The core road of the Westminster Industrial Estate, photographed from the barrier at the West end that is normally closed to prevent through traffic. See Image for a view from the other end.

A fairly new "welcome" sign on the pedestrian route to the visitor centre.

Many of the roads and paths running down to the Thames are called Manorways (presumably for some historic reason that I have not yet discovered). This one is now a short dead-end off Eastmoor Street for traffic, the rest of it being a cycle path (part of NCN1 / Thames Path). The stretch of surfaced path on the right, signed as shared-use, is quite new: previously cyclists had to get round the traffic barrier in the foreground when the motor workshop beyond it was closed.

One of several vehicle repair businesses in this area. Autotrans repair automatic gearboxes.

The sign says that the sculpture is under recorded video surveillance to prevent damage. What sculpture? Did the video record its disappearance?

This is the spine road of the Westminster Industrial Estate in Charlton. The road is private, being accessed from the east end (this photo was taken through the normally closed gates at the west end).

The upper sign declares Westfield Street Image as a private road. The lower one also declares the adjacent car park to be private.

The long brick range of the former cable factory, the most significant of the few surviving elements of the large Siemens works which once dominated the area. It closed in 1968. Among other things, this site was responsible for pioneering work on trans-continental telegraph cables, and was involved in constructing oil pipelines to assist the D-Day landings (the PLUTO project). This building was erected c1911 using the Kahn Concrete system. Grade II listed. Despite that, the present owner wanted to demolish it as part of a regeneration scheme. A Certificate of Immunity from Listing was sought, but instead Historic England decided to list it, for which reason plans appear to be in abeyance.