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Dist:0.2km north<br/>The Fuller Way subway that provides a pedestrian crossing of the motorway between Hayes and Cranford Park.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Just south of the M4 looking towards gravel works & Cranford Park
©Ray Stanton
Dist:0.5km north<br/>it is in Hayes, Middlesex!
©Ray Stanton
Dist:0.6km west<br/>This was my school from 1977 to 1981. This is a view of the back of the school. Townsend House School, 59 Shepiston Lane. Next door to the Arlington Hotel on one side and the Fire Station on the other. It was built in 1910 and was demolished in 1998 along with major parts of the Arlington Hotel to make way for the new Comfort Inn with 102 additional rooms - part of planning application number: 40396B/97/973
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Dist:0.6km west<br/>This was my school from 1977 to 1981. Townsend House School, 59 Shepiston Lane. Next door to the Arlington Hotel on one side and the Fire Station on the other. It was built in 1910 and was demolished in 1998 along with major parts of the Arlington Hotel to make way for the new Comfort Inn with 102 additional rooms - part of planning application number: 40396B/97/973
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Dist:0.7km east<br/>A telephoto lens reveals the date "1721" below the figure VI. Built by James, 3rd Earl of Berkeley (1680-1736).
©Andrew Hackney
Dist:0.7km east<br/>This view was taken from the first floor within the stable block, when I was permitted access whilst researching a local history project. The site of Cranford House (demolished 1945) is marked by the metal fence at top-centre of photograph.
©Andrew Hackney
Dist:0.7km east<br/>Not usually accessible to the public but I was fortunate to obtain access whilst researching a local history project.
©Andrew Hackney
Dist:0.7km east<br/>
©John Goodall
Dist:0.7km west<br/>Looking east.
©Ray Stanton
Dist:0.7km west<br/>Taken from same place as previous photo but looking south.
©Ray Stanton
Dist:0.7km east<br/>St Dunstan's was sited adjacent to Cranford House, belonging to the titled Berkeley family. Buried at this quiet church are 2 earls, 2 lord, 1 viscount, 3 countesses and 1 baroness. The hanging sanctury lamp in the photograph incorporates the coronet of Frederick Augustus, 5th Earl of Berkeley (1745-1810), which was found in the family vaults in 1937.
©Andrew Hackney
Dist:0.7km west<br/>Prior to the construction of the motorway a road linking Harlington with Hayes went across this location at the top of the ramp. The subway now enables pedestrians at least to cross the motorway between St Peters Way and Shepiston Lane.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.8km west<br/>This area was once an under-utilised park next to Shepiston Lane and the M4 Motorway, but in 2001 it was planted with more than 5,000 native trees and shrubs by the then Trees for London organization, (now Trees for Cities), as a pollution barrier between this busy road and the residential area next to it, which includes two schools and a community centre. Mosaic sculptures, such as the one in the image, have also been installed at the site, and were designed by community artist Friedel Buecking, with the help of local school children. The Trees for Cities website is here http://treesforlondon.org.uk/default.asp (Incidentally there is an extraordinary amount of confusion about the surname of the person after whom the area is named. I have used Philps as it is shown on the plaques on the mosaics, and on the Trees for London website, but Hillingdon Council use Phelp, Philp and Philps on different pages on their website, Hillingdon Business Education Partnership use Phelps, Streetmap use Philip, the London Assembly have Phelps, Philip and Philps, the Ordnance Survey have Philp, and the Hillingdon Times have Philips.) Update, January 2008: A visitor to the site has e-mailed me to ask me if I am aware that this area was/is always referred to locally as The Bunny Fields or The Bunnies. She says "I lived about 10 mins walk away from The Bunnies from my birth in 1966 on and off until 1989, and went to Pinkwell Primary and Harlington Secondary Schools - both practically next to The Bunnies. For 5 of those years I walked my dog there practically every single day, and the fields were an incredibly important place in my childhood and teen years. I just think this name for the fields should be recorded by your project - I never once heard the area referred to as Sam Phelps - EVERYONE called it The Bunny Fields! (Though I never once saw a rabbit there - only water rats!)"
©Nigel Cox

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