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Ashford Avenue, HAYES, UB4 0NA

The photographer writes reach in Southall, but the canal here forms the administrative boundary between the London Borough of Hillingdon to the left and the London Borough of Ealing to the right. The residential properties on the far side of the canal are on Tollgate Drive in Hayes.

A new housing complex on the banks of the Grand Union Canal.

The Paddington Arm of the then Grand Junction Canal was opened in 1801 from Bull's Bridge near Southall to Paddington Basin. The canals were initially a success, particularly for transporting coal, building materials and other bulky loads, but the rise of the railways not long after the canals were built substantially reduced their importance. Now they are primarily a leisure facility. The Paddington Arm was one of the last to see the old-fashioned style of regular commercial traffic of paired narrow boats carrying the traditional materials such as coal, oils, and tar. The Paddington Arm now sees regular commercial traffic, usually in the form of aggregates. The new houses on the opposite side are along Tollgate Drive. Until recently there were factories here.

The brook in question is the Yeading Brook which is a tributary of the River Crane. The Dog Rose Ramble and the Hillingdon Trail pass through Brookside Open Space, just after crossing the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal at Spikes Bridge. See http://www.bertuchi.co.uk/dogroseramble.php for more about the Dog Rose Ramble. There was an interesting cloud formation when I took this photograph on a day of sunshine and showers.