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Drayton Grove, LONDON, W13 0LA

Grade II listed, formerly, until 1979, the chapel of St. Helena's Convent.

I originally thought this was a house but clearly no front door and shutters where the windows would be.

Looking west along Drayton Avenue. The eastern end of the street has a variety of housing, but most of the street has very homogenous houses, built in very long terraces.

St Helena's Home, a women's reformatory run by an Anglican religious order, the Wantage-based Sisters of St Mary the Virgin built the house in 1896. It remained in the care of the Wantage sisters until around 1940, when it was requisitioned by Middlesex County Council for use as a girls' remand centre. In 1965 the main building reverted to the Sisters, who used it as a base for religious retreats. The Sisters finally left in 1980 and for over twenty years it housed the educational hostel of the Chinese Embassy. Sold to developers, then to a housing trust, it was demolished in 2011.

The sorting office serves the W13 postcode area. Originally known as Ealing Dean Sorting Office, it was built in 1904 almost certainly to the designs of architect Jasper Wager. Wager worked for the London section of the Office of Works, the Government department responsible for the design of post office buildings. Similar buildings most probably designed by Wager, not all functioning as delivery offices, may be found in East Finchley, Hanwell, Kentish Town, Lee Green, Streatham, Tooting, Upper Edmonton, Walthamstow and Winchmore Hill.