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Drenon Square, HAYES, UB3 2HQ

This is directly on Church Road, next to the big carpark which is in front of the ground. For information about the club and its components Hayes FC and Yeading FC which merged in May 2007, see club website http://www.hyufc.net/ .

This bus stop is on Church Road and is served by the 195, H98 and U7 buses.

This is Central Avenue, the main spine road through this area of Hayes that was mainly developed residentially between the two World Wars. This view is at the junction with Orchard Road and features some recently severely lopped street trees!

Please see Brian's Image for a description of how George Orwell is linked to this building and his (Orwell's not Brian's) reputed opinions of the denizens of Hayes! The green plaque appears to have moved across the front of the building since 2004, possibly to a more prominent location on the corner while the owners have added their own sign.

Now a hotel, this used to be a private school where the writer George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) taught for a time in the early 1930s. The school was known as 'The Hawthorns' and was a private school for boys. It was run simply as a business by its owner and Orwell's opinion of it was very low. He referred to it as 'a dirty swindle' in private correspondence. His view of Hayes itself was not much better. In the same letter he described Hayes as 'one of the most godforsaken places I have ever struck. The population seems to be entirely made up of clerks who frequent tin-roofed chapels on Sundays & for the rest bolt themselves within doors.'* *'George Orwell' by Gordon Bowker, Little, Brown 2003.

[Description in 2010] View across car park from Church Road. For information about the club and its components Hayes FC and Yeading FC which merged in May 2007, see club website https://www.hyufc.com/. The club plays in the Blue Square Premier league of the Football Conference. The merged club started in Conference South, and won promotion to Blue Square Premier in 2008/9. Hayes FC (the missioners) was founded in 1909 as Botwell Mission. Yeading FC (the Ding) started in 1960 as Yeading Youth Club. Both clubs had notable successes in FA and FA amateur cups, as well as many in lower leagues and Middlesex events. [edit August 2022] Wikipedia article says "It currently competes in the Southern League Premier Division South and plays its home matches at the Skyex stadium." There have been several changes of ground, some temporary.

The plaque commemorates George Orwell.

This small green space is a semi-circle between Coldharbour Lane, which is the main road to the right, and Eastholme.