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High Street, UXBRIDGE, UB8 1JL

Looking downstream. The river is in fact an arm of River Colne, leaving it in Denham, and rejoining it in Cowley.

Former mill powered by Fray's River; now Fountain's Mill Young People's Centre: http://young.hillingdon.gov.uk/fountainsmill

Original part of the Magistrates Court, in Harefield Road, Uxbridge. To the left [out of view] is the modern Courthouse.

Faculty of Society and Health, on Oxford Road: http://bucks.ac.uk/about_us/how_we_are_structured/faculties/

Looking north up Oxford road. The dark grey building is named The Atrium. Looking down the road to the building in the distance, this is the former site of Uxbridge High Street railway station.

The building dates from 1576 and was originally called Place House. During the English Civil War in February 1645 it hosted negotiations between Charles I and Parliamentary forces. When Oxford Road was widened in the 18th century, the building was reduced in size and converted into a coaching inn, with the alterations overseen by Sir John Soane. It was rebuilt in the early 19th century and became the Crown Inn. In 1924 its wood panelling was sold to decorate an office in the Empire State Building. However, the panelling was returned in 1953 as a coronation gift to Elizabeth II. In 1968 it was re-named the Crown & Treaty. The pub closed for refurbishments in April 2018, and reopened on 25 October 2019. Mercury Prize-nominated band Sweet Billy Pilgrim named their third album Crown & Treaty after the pub.

Across the road, No 66 High Street (The Cedars) Image, has had its untidy side draped with a mural reflecting the Uxbridge landscape. The mural is part of a display celebrating Uxbridge's close association with Arthur Sanderson & Sons who opened a textile-printing factory here in 1919 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sanderson_%26_Sons A continuation of the design on the end wall incorporates a picture of Kate Fassnidge (1893-1950), a benefactor of the town Image