EPW033809 ENGLAND (1930). The Mono Service Containers factory, Park Royal Football Ground and environs, Park Royal, 1930

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Details

Title [EPW033809] The Mono Service Containers factory, Park Royal Football Ground and environs, Park Royal, 1930
Reference EPW033809
Date July-1930
Link
Place name PARK ROYAL
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 519547, 182633
Longitude / Latitude -0.27640182311313, 51.529454779407
National Grid Reference TQ195826

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The Great Western Railway's Park Royal station (1903-1937). It was demolished very soon after closure. As is seen it was not the easiest station to access from the main road, the building being on what became Johnson Way. This was a full size station, as was North Acton.

Leslie B
Saturday 5th of August 2017 11:08:46 AM
The reason for the heavy concentration of industrialisation in this area goes back to WW1. The area once occupied by the failed Royal Agricultural Society show ground was commandeered by the government for war purposes. Part of the land (probably the area around the Horse Ring (later the Guinness Brewery) was given over to a Army Service Corps Remount Depot. This was a facility concerned with the gathering, husbandry, training and eventual distribution of the great numbers of horses still required oversees by the military at that time. The rest of the area was used to set up a vast munitions works. This would have been facilitated by the proximity to nearby rail and canal transportation links. Other munitions production sites were also set up nearby in North Acton. After the war, the former munitions works buildings were acquired and put to use by private industry.

The Laird
Thursday 12th of January 2017 06:31:16 PM