EPW037587 ENGLAND (1932). Factories and industrial land alongside the Grand Union Canal and Great Western Railway in Hayes and Hounslow, Heston, from the south-east, 1932
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| Title | [EPW037587] Factories and industrial land alongside the Grand Union Canal and Great Western Railway in Hayes and Hounslow, Heston, from the south-east, 1932 |
| Reference | EPW037587 |
| Date | April-1932 |
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| Place name | HESTON |
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| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 510668, 178911 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -0.4055302432631, 51.497808219193 |
| National Grid Reference | TQ107789 |
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 During WW1, this was the site of an extensive hutted munitions works (National Filling Factory No. 7). These huts re possibly remains of the site, perhaps utilised by the developers of the housing estate as site offices. |
The Laird |
Saturday 28th of June 2014 10:34:06 AM |
| Fairey Aviation factory, later becoming Westlands. |
The Laird |
Saturday 28th of June 2014 10:29:47 AM |
| Bulls Bridge British water ways My Dad worked there in the late 1940s |
southallboy |
Monday 17th of December 2012 04:53:41 PM |
I think by that time it had become a large canal depot which was used for maintenance and the transshipment of canal borne goods. There didn't seem to be much going on at the site in 1932. The site of Bulls Bridge Depot is now occupied by a Tesco store. |
The Laird |
Saturday 28th of June 2014 10:43:49 AM |