Bulls bridge, G.U old wharf

[onionbargee]

Im wondering what used to be at the site between Bulls Bridge junction and the Nestle factory, it's a electricity sub station now, but there is a wharf with well used mooring rings, and an old loading ramp made of railway track there.

 

google earth 51.500675, -0.410658

Edited August 12, 2012 by onionbargee

[BEngo]

Im wondering what used to be at the site between Bulls Bridge junction and the Nestle factory, it's a electricity sub station now, but there is a wharf with well used mooring rings, and an old loading ramp made of railway sleepers there.

 

google earth 51.500675, -0.410658

 

 

If it's the site with the British Airways aircraft component repair facility on it I think it used to be the EMI record factory. (Hayes Gramophone) An electricity substation was built to service the BA facility.

 

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[onionbargee]

The old EMI factory is further up towards Hayes.

[the grinch]

tried google but can't come up with anything before 1970's when the power station was built other than the yeading brook running across the site.

 

although Tam Murrell should know as i'm sure he lived at the junction in the 80's

Edited August 11, 2012 by hamsterfan

[Derek R.]

This bit? 'Ramp' central in the view.

[the grinch]

This bit? 'Ramp' central in the view.

 

the right hand side "building site"

[Derek R.]

Looking at old ordnance survey maps online show nothing of any significance.

1930's HERE. You'll need to scroll down on the right hand side for map 1932 - 1935, then click on that and wait for the download.

 

Edited to add:

Older maps show just a field, and the 1960 one shows little more.

Edited August 11, 2012 by Derek R.

[the grinch]

i'd tried that as well derek

[onionbargee]

This bit? 'Ramp' central in the view.

Thats the spot.

Edited August 11, 2012 by onionbargee

[Laurence Hogg]

It was Hayes cocoa works (eventually Nestle) according to "Arteries of commerce" the GUCCo handbook.next dock on towpath side was Shackles which had Smiths crisps and Scotts jams.

 

http://www.luphen.org.uk/images/2007/2007-04/2007-04-07-135007.jpg

Edited August 11, 2012 by Laurence Hogg

[the grinch]

the cocoa works is the building on the right of your picture as far as I know, still stinks/smells (depending on your senses) of coffee when you go by!

and smith's was next door to that.

Edited August 11, 2012 by hamsterfan

[onionbargee]

the cocoa works is the building on the right of your picture as far as I know, still stinks/smells (depending on your senses) of coffee when you go by!

and smith's was next door to that.

Nestle's coffee, the white buildings in the picture, are closing down, as we speak. The air is a little bit less stinky now around Bulls Bridge, not much though.

 

when area was waste land, before they started the current expansion of the electric station, the bottle diggers found loads there, so it must have been a rubbish tip at some point.

 

That looks like an un-loading ramp for a tipper lorry, i'm wondering what they were tipping there ?

Edited August 12, 2012 by onionbargee

[jenlyn]

that is Nestle's coffee factory, which is closing down now by the way

Is it, when? Bet that will see a few unemployed. Seems a big place. More of those flats going there?

[onionbargee]

Is it, when? Bet that will see a few unemployed. Seems a big place. More of those flats going there?

 

already stripping out the place my friend. Bound to be flats, sorry waterside apartments.

 

You notice that all the big new housing developments round here, Hayes, Yeiwsley, ect are all filled by dubious immigrants. We might as well build flats in Somalia and save them the journey !

[Tam & Di]

Im wondering what used to be at the site between Bulls Bridge junction and the Nestle factory, it's a electricity sub station now, but there is a wharf with well used mooring rings, and an old loading ramp made of railway sleepers there.

 

google earth 51.500675, -0.410658

 

I only remember it from the 60s on as a field with cows, between the BW repair yard and Hayes cocoa, though BW did keep timber on part of it. A woman named Jill kept pigs on the land opposite, on the towpath side - known to us obviously as Jill's pig farm, but it probably had some formal name. The bridge was built as access when she moved out and her farm was developed as an industrial estate for Volvo among others. I remember the loading ramp, but I've no idea what was loaded there. The Yeading Brook was also known as Bull's Brook just there.

[the grinch]

i knew you'd know the answer! cheers