Walk pictures - Sudbury Hill to Brentford

Introduction

On New Year’s Eve, my dad led a walk in London - aside from him and me, my mum and my wife were both there. The walk started from Sudbury Hill, a station we had used on the Capital Ring, and some of it followed the same route as those previous walks.

Sudbury Hill to Horsenden Hill

Sudbury Hill station has rather nice 1930s architecture.

1/125 at f5.6, 23mm, ISO200

We walked across a small park (past a building site) and along some residential streets to Horsenden Hill.

Building site.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°33′19″N 0°19′57″W

Garage.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°33′15″N 0°19′34″W

Near the summit of the hill.

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′49″N 0°19′33″W

The view from the hill was a little less than impressive, on account of the weather being rather grey/rainy.

Nice bit of railing.

1/15 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′45″N 0°19′43″W

Pipe bridge, road bridge, and footbridge over canal.

1/30 at f5.6, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′31″N 0°19′32″W

Industrial estate

The next part of the walk, along Bilton Road and Aintree Road, was through an industrial estate with lots more 1930s architecture. (You may be shocked to hear that this part wasn't among those chosen for the Capital Ring.)

Hillview Surgery.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′24″N 0°19′0″W

Prigee.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′24″N 0°18′57″W

Side alley.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′17″N 0°18′57″W

Euro Sheet Metal Ltd.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′14″N 0°18′59″W

Back yard (of the Danly factory, I think) with pallets and chimney.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′13″N 0°19′0″W

Danly Die and Mould Sets Limited

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′13″N 0°19′1″W

Side wall of Kewtube. (Tube bending specialists, apparently!)

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′11″N 0°19′6″W

Tree.

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°32′10″N 0°19′9″W

We then arrived at a very large Tesco, but not just any very large Tesco - this one occupies part of the old Hoover Building, another (rather impressive) 1930s factory. The old staff canteen next door has been converted into a very fancy Indian restaurant.

Restaurant (1).

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′57″N 0°19′11″W

Restaurant (2).

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′56″N 0°19′12″W

There’s also a quite distinctive row of shops nextdoor.

Including this Lloyds Bank.

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′55″N 0°19′13″W

This is alongside a very busy road, Western Avenue.

Crossing by the footbridge.

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′52″N 0°19′15″W

St Mary’s

Shortly after leaving the road we crossed into parkland by ‘the Ancient Church of St Mary the Virgin’. This is a rather distinctive church. It was closed, but in the churchyard we encountered one of the local volunteers who told us a bit about it.

Church tower.

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′50″N 0°19′16″W

Statue by grave (with restored arm).

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′48″N 0°19′18″W

Reflection in window.

1/30 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′47″N 0°19′19″W

Actual view of church so you can see what it looks like!

1/60 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′46″N 0°19′19″W

Viaducts and parks

The next part of the route ran across parks and residential streets, passing not one but two railway viaducts.

Leisure centre in one of the parks.

1/125 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′21″N 0°19′39″W

Side wall of leisure centre.

1/30 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′21″N 0°19′39″W

First viaduct.

1/30 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°31′20″N 0°19′40″W

1a.

1/30 at f4, 23mm, ISO200 51°30′54″N 0°20′12″W

Church (another St Mary’s).

1/30 at f8, 23mm, ISO200 51°30′49″N 0°20′51″W

Second viaduct (1).

1/30 at f5.6, 23mm, ISO400 51°30′39″N 0°20′37″W

Second viaduct (2).

1/30 at f2.8, 23mm, ISO400 51°30′39″N 0°20′37″W

The second viaduct is actually the Wharncliffe Viaduct, which was designed by Brunel and is quite well known (and impressive); I had a better overall pic of it last time so I didn’t include one here.