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Buxton Gardens, LONDON, W3 9LE

This sports hall with adjacent hard surface sports area are used by Twyford Church of England High School during the day, and as a public sports centre in the evenings and weekends. It is on the site of Farnell's teddy bear factory.

This 1930's redbrick building is situated in Lexden Road W3 9NZ, and is typical of the TEs that were built in Greater London during that time. It has the code LWACT and provides telephone and broadband services to 14,685 residential and 721 non-residential premises in the Acton area. The words TELEPHONE EXCHANGE can be seen above the entrance door to the left of the TE.

This photo of the TE is taken in Barlow Road W3 9LJ, near the junction with Lexden Road. It used to have ACOrn numbers until the late 1960s, but then had 01-992, 993 xxxx numbers. These were changed to 0208 numbers during the year 2000, and 0208-752,896,992 and 993 xxxx numbers are now provided by this TE. A KX200 telephone kiosk can be seen to the left of the photo, although its payphone has been taken out which probably means that the kiosk itself will be removed before long.

These were derelict for many years and one day returned to normal use like magic, completely unchanged apart from being cleaned up.

This 18th Century house is the administrative building of Twyford Church of England High School. For views from the roof see Image and Image

This is the south wall of The Elms, which is the administrative building of Twyford Church of England High School. Tuck pointing is a decorative white ribbon applied over hand-made irregular bricks to give a neat and uniform appearance. Dr Gerard Lynch in a long description on the Brickmaster website http://www.brickmaster.co.uk/tukcpointing.htm tells us it is: "a highly skilled and refined method of pointing brickwork whereby the overall mortar joint is coloured to match the brick and grooved while still 'green' to receive a carefully placed lime-putty : silver sand joint, which is then carefully trimmed to form a precise ribbon-like profile. Its intention, in England, was to create an illusion of gauged ashlared brickwork on walling constructed of standard, often irregular, handmade bricks."

"The Elms" is a house built in 1735 for Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Keeper of the Record Office. It remained a private house until 1964, when it became a school. The last owners were the Farnell family, who built a teddy bear factory next to the house. The house is now the administrative building of Twyford Church of England High School, which was established in 1980. Photo taken during a London Open House day - note visitors on the roof. For other photos see Image, Image, Image, Image and Image

Morrisons superstore's car park occupies the foreground.