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Built as a family home in the 1830s, this house was used as Council offices from 1892, and as a Health Centre from 1927. To the right can be seen the Hanwell Library which functioned as Hanwell Urban District Council offices from 1905 to 1926.

Hanwell Community Library is part of the Carnegie legacy in the London Borough of Ealing. It has been serving Hanwell since 1905. In 2019 Ealing Council passed the responsibility for the day to day running of this and several other neighbourhood libraries to the community. This branch is run by Ealing Law Centre which occupies the same building.

Some effort has been made to preserve a Great Western Railway feel at this suburban station. This large station name board is in the correct style (and gives the full traditional name of the station) but the colours seem to have been lost.

Old-fashioned wooden shelters (and the edge of an old-fashioned sign) co-existing with the electric wires for the new Heathrow Express link.

Unlike neighbouring Ealing, Hanwell's Broadway does not form part of the current main thoroughfare through the town. Instead, it is located beside the A4020 Uxbridge Road. The art-deco clock on the left of the photo was erected in 1937 to celebrate the coronation of King George VI.

Hanwell station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway which opened on 4th June 1838, although Hanwell station opened on 1st December 1838. The station was renamed Hanwell and Elthorne on 1st April 1896, and reverted to Hanwell on 6th May 1974. The station was re-built in the 1870s and is grade II listed. As can be seen here, on platform 2 is a station nameboard still bearing the pre-1974 name Hanwell and Elthorne. This view is from the Paddington-bound platform 3. A freight train is heading through the station on the down slow line.

Opened in 1877 by the Great Western Railway on its line from London Paddington to Reading, this station replaced an 1838 one some 250m further west. See also Image View west towards Southall and Reading. In the years since Image was taken from roughly the same camera position, new railings and a lift have been installed.