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Drayton Court Chambers, Argyle Road, LONDON, W13 8LH

A bus on the E7 route to Ealing Broadway from Ruislip begins the short sharp climb up to the bridge at West Ealing Station. Argyle corner in the background is probably an unofficial name - it is the junction of Argyle Road and Manor Road.

Argyle Road in West Ealing, in the suburbs of West London.

A new apartment block at the junction of The Avenue and Argyle Road in West Ealing.

Ostentatious High Victoriana dominating the suburb of West Ealing (or Ealing Dean). According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drayton_Court , the buildings dates from 1894.

Located on The Avenue, close to West Ealing station.

The Drayton Court Hotel was opened in 1894. A hotel until the 1940s when it became just a public house. Refurbished in 2011 it is once again a 4 star hotel. The former Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, Hồ Chí Minh, worked in the hotel kitchens in 1914. Ealing is one of the seven major towns in the London Borough of Ealing. A rural village until communications with London got better with the improvements to the road to Oxford (later Uxbridge Road) in the 18th century and culminating with the coming of the railway in 1838. Ealing expanded greatly with suburban development during the 19th century and became known as the "Queen of the Suburbs" due to its greenery and because it was halfway between city and country. Ealing became a municipal borough in 1901. Growth continued throughout the 20th century and Ealing became part of a modern London borough in 1965.

The new station building on Manor Road opened on 25 March 2021 as part of a £3bn upgrade to existing stations on the Elizabeth line. It replaced the old station on Drayton Green Road which had stood on the site since 1871. The new station features an airy ticket hall and step-free access to all platforms, including the new bay platform which forms the terminus of GWR's Greenford branch line. When the new station opened, West Ealing was also served by up to eight trains per hour between Paddington and Hayes & Harlington or Heathrow Airport on a service then branded as TfL Rail but using Elizabeth line rolling stock. In front of the building the picture shows some of the wooden planters which were previously used by Ealing Council to block several dozen residential roads in the controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - most of which were scrapped in October 2021 following widespread opposition.