EPW024776 ENGLAND (1928). Little Wormwood Scrubs and environs including the White City Olympic Stadium, Wormwood Scrubs, 1928

North Pole pub

Gas Holders 08/04/2014

St Quintin Ave

In the 1950’s this site became a Territorial Army depot for the Parachute Regiment Reserves. They used to train using a tethered ex-barrage balloon with a basket, for approx 12 trainees plus instructors, from the open ground to the north (Wormwood Scrubs).

Cemetery chapel

Clement Talbot Motor Works

Latymer Upper School playing fields

White City Stadium. Main venue for the 1908 London Olympics. The world's first purpose-built Olympic Stadium. Was the finish for the 1908 Olympic Marathon, the first marathon run over the now standard marathon distance of 26 miles 385 yards. For information on London's first two Olympic Marathons, see http://sportinglandmarks.co.uk/?p=303

Central London Line, later to become the Central Line of London Transport (1933).

St Quintin Park & Wormwood Scrubs Station L&NWR.

North Pole Junction Signal Box. Line joins in off GWR main line from right.

West London Railway Line between Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction through the then Addison Road station [Now Olympia] Kensington.

GWR main line into Paddington [to right]

All Soul's Cemetary Kensal Green. Created in 1832, this is the oldest of London's 'magnificent seven' nineteenth century cemetaries. There are over 250,000 Londoners buried here, including Freddie Mercury, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Babbage, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Wilkie Collins.