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Kings Road, FELTHAM, TW13 5AU

The Court is in Hanworth Road. The old Ordnance Survey map of 1897 shows this whole area as orchards. From an architectural viewpoint this front façade is a real dog's dinner. The central section is a very pleasing symmetrical Edwardian edifice, but the extensions on either side, although appearing contemporary with the central part, are totally out of sympathy with it and with each other. One other topical observation. At the time of the submission of this image a couple of English local authorities had just controversially announced that they were abandoning the use of the possessive apostrophe from all official use. The court is properly known as a Magistrates' Court, being the court of several magistrates, yet the title in the pediment of this original Edwardian building clearly has never had an apostrophe.

Road bridge and covered walkway over railway line on Harlington Road East

Typical 1930s mock Tudor road house pub, this one occupies a prominent position in the angle of the junction of Harlington Road East and Hanworth Road. Reputedly the pub's one claim to fame is that the boxer Freddie Mills used it as a training base prior to his successful British light-heavyweight title fight against Len Harvey in 1942.

Viewed from the Harlington Road East bridge.

View eastwards, towards London: Clapham Junction etc.; ex-LSW 'Windsor Lines'. One of the largest marshalling yards in the country, Feltham was purpose-built by the LSWR in 1921-22 to handle almost all the freight traffic to and through London on the Southern Railway Western Section - about 5,500 wagons per day. The locomotive is No. 30493 (built 7/21, withdrawn 12/59), one of the Urie G16 class of four 4-8-0Ts specially built for shunting over the humps of the Feltham Up and Down Yards: it is working the Down Yard and passing Feltham East Box, the main line being on the left and the Up Reception lines next to it. All this complex was completely swept away by January 1969 and became a Nature Reserve.

Beside the A312 road bridge, which lacks a footway on this side, but has one on the other side.

View westward, towards Feltham station, Staines etc.: ex-LSW London - Staines - Windsor/Reading etc. main line. The locomotive is typical, a Maunsell class S15 4-6-0 No. 30839 (built 5/36, withdrawn 9/65).

The church celebrates its centenary in 2009. It opened in 1909 as the Feltham Wesleyan Church, later becoming the Hanworth Road Methodist Church. In 1976 the Victoria Road United Reformed Church site was sold and the church then became the United Free Church (Methodist/United Reformed). The name Christ Church was adopted in 1981 when the former congregation of St Catherine's started to share the church. The spire peeping over the rooftop to the right is that of St Catherine's. The building is now home to the United Free Church of Feltham, as well as a meeting place for several other Christian traditions and community groups.

The same shot as Image some two and a bit years on. The place is under new management and looks to have been smartened up.