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Stoke Road, SLOUGH, SL2 5YG

With its distinctive circular red brick tower feature, this office building is at the corner of Stoke Road (left) and Mill Street.

This photo, taken from Stanley Cottages off Stoke Road, shows the parking area and the maintenance building for the First Beeline buses that are based here. The blue bus to the right of the photo is 64037 (LK07 CCU) a 2007 Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro with 38-seater bodywork in the blue Slough Heathrow 7 series livery for the routes 71/5/6/7/8 between Slough and Heathrow Airport. On the left of the photo is a yellow BMC 60-seater Student Bus. The postcode of this bus depot is SL2 5AQ.

Situated on the B416 Stoke Road, this bus depot replaced the former London Country Bus Garage in St Leonard's Road, Windsor in late July 1984 and now has about 70 vehicles based here. They operate services in the Slough and Windsor area plus services to High Wycombe, London Heathrow Airport, Maidenhead and Uxbridge. Also they provide double deck buses on Green Line route 702 between London Victoria and Bracknell via Slough and Windsor.

At the corner of Stoke Road and Stanley Cotts.

Here the view is across Stoke Road into Littledown Road.

Chicken Ranch is a locally listed building, built 1889. The original name is still on the pediment.

Situated in Grays Place SL2 5AF, this driving test centre replaced the one at 64 Stoke Road some years ago, the latter having since been demolished. This DTC carries out practical driving tests for cars and taxis. The parking area is behind the DTC, the entrance being to the left of the photo. Update: this driving test centre closed on Tuesday 3rd January 2017 and practical driving tests moved to the new centre at Langley Pavilion, Langley Road SL3 8BS from the following day. More recently, it has again moved to 12 Waterside Drive, Langley, SL3 6EZ. Update: this former driving test centre has since been demolished with building work currently taking place on this site.

The Chicken Ranch building was built in 1882 as The Leopold Coffee House. The name and date are still on the facade in the brickwork. The idea behind it was the classic Victorian one of enticing drinkers away from the wickedness of the pubs. http://www.sloughhistoryonline.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=slough&f=generic_objectrecord_postsearch.htm&_IXFIRST_=2269&_IXMAXHITS_=1&m=quick_sform&tc1=i&partner=slough&s=ZXLdrkpbHiD Strangely, all these years later, a decent coffee could still pull that trick for me sometimes. Fried chicken couldn't.