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Moor Lane, STAINES-UPON-THAMES, TW18 4BB

When the Staines and West Drayton Railway completed their line into Staines in 1885 they converted this handy Georgian mansion house into the terminus station rather than constructing a new building. The line and the station were closed in 1965, and the building was converted into offices. For a view of the other side of the former station please see Image The sculpture on the right is by the sculptor John Atkin and is entitled "Pound Mill".

This is the rear of Image Nick Catford's great website has an image of the station in 1968, three years after closure here http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/staines_west/index.shtml Evidently the railway was double-tracked virtually up to the building and had one platform on the left side of the current office car park. It is assumed that the buffers on the left here were originally at the end of the tracks. Some of the original rails are inbedded in the car park surface, although, again, not in their original locations.

Opened in 1885 by the Great Western Railway as the terminus of its short branch line from West Drayton, this station closed in 1965. View south east from the road towards the site of the buffers, which were just in front of the still extant station building. The wall on which a new sign for "Staines West" has appeared is the original retaining wall at the rear of the platform. The lamp standards are also original from the platform but have been relocated to the centre of the car park. The buffer stop is a new addition since closure. For more detail, see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/staines_west/index4.shtml

With Image looming in the distance and the Pound Mill sculpture in the left foreground, the building is currently occupied by Cygnet Orthodontics.

A pleasant street in the old part of town.

Ashby's Brewery functioned in Staines up until about 1930 and this building in Church Street with its distinctive crown shaped metal cap is, I think, one of the brewery's buildings. Records of the building on the internet are sparse as it surprisingly does not appear to be a Listed Building. After it ceased being a brewery it may have been used as an office by Courage, but has since been converted into flats.

This large town centre tower brewery ceased production as long ago as 1936, but the building has survived and is now apartments. Brewery history on http://www.thamessidebrewery.co.uk/history.html which is from the Thames Side Brewery, a new company now brewing nearby.

The pub - at the corner of Bridge Street - was once 'The Cock'. It is certainly a handsome building, perhaps dating from about 1825. The tall building beyond it - now residential - is said to have been the old Ashby's brewery. The Staines firm was acquired by Simonds in about 1930, the estate subsequently passing into the hands of Courage. http://ashbybugbrooke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ashby-breweries-history.html