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Thanks to all who have revived this topic, and my memories. I worked at Art
Metals in the early 1960s, and later briefly at BCC, before it became part of Racal. I'm not sure but I think Art Metals was on Second Way. Across the street was Dring's, a sausage factory belonging to Walls. Coming out of Art Metals and turning right towards Wembley Park there was a footbridge over the railway and a cafe in part of a factory building. The station was in use on evenings when there was a match or event at the stadium. As someone else says one of the old ponds survived near the stadium, though in a sorry state, with the remains of an ornamental bridge. From talking to people and looking at old pictures I think this had been a Chinese garden, similar to the Willow pattern, from the Exhibition days. And that smallish half-domed building someone mentioned was either the Cyprus or Malta stand. Saw a fox crossing its back car park one afternoon last year as I was passing on the top of the 83. I seem to remember the Palace of Engineering with its lions outside being used by GEC and/or HMSO as a warehouse before the carpet people came. And I remember now looking down on the other, Marylebone, line through Wembley Hill (as today's Wembley Stadium station was called then) from the back of the BCC factory. British Communications Company incidentally, which produced equipment for the armed forces, was an almost entirely Polish company from the directors (all called "Wing Commander Somethingochevsky" etc) down, though they also acquired a place behind Wembley High Road where they employed a lot of West Indian women. Those young gentlemen who have called the area a "dump" and doubted its contribution to the economy might be surprised to learn that back in those days, when folk in London (and Britain) actually made stuff, the North West quarter of London, from Acton round in an arc through Brent to Hendon, was one of Europe's major industrial areas. |
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