Hoover factory, Western Ave, Perivale – Wallis, Gilbert & Partners – 1931-38
The best building in world ever – the Art Deco factory fan’s Mecca – no more words necessary. Enjoy…
The Hoover Building
Hoover / Tesco car park
rear entrance
Hoover factory canteen rear
Hoover factory canteen front
main gates
front entrance
dog and deco porn
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Battersea Power Station – Sir Giles Gilbert Scott – 1933 (completed 1957)
Well, what a fun morning I had on saturday – I finally made it to one of the open days of the Battersea Power Station site! A rare opportunity indeed. If you can possibly make it you should try and get along this saturday (Aug 23rd) between 10am and 5pm – it may be the last chance you get to see it this close up for a long while.
Just a word of warning though, if you’re a dog you probably won’t be allowed closer than I am in this piccie (above) – I had to get special permission (in my professional capacity as representative of Dog and Deco) to get into the site, and as you will see I took Health and Safety Exec guidelines very seriously, sporting a not-so-sexy fluorescent vest throughout my site visit.
For more info see the website: www.battersea-powerstation.com
south elevation
turbine hall
(not a very good photo I’m afraid – I was very distracted by the bit of sausage I found just here – but the turbine hall is so special I thought it worthy of inclusion anyway)
north elevation
north elevation
main boiler house
staircase (adjacent to north west chimney)
a very smug mutt!
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overlooking the (not quite so anymore) Golden Mile
Me on the foot bridge between the old Firestone Factory and the Pyrene factory.
Looking east along the ‘Golden Mile’ towards Chiswick, you can still see the former Curry’s factory, but many of the other art deco factories have gone now. You can just see the top of the new(ish) Glaxo Smith Kline HQ.
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Just a quickie today…
Natwest Bank, Gillette Corner, Brentford – architect tbc (possibly Sir Banister Fletcher ?) – date tbc (possibly 1936?) – I’ll keep you posted once I’ve done some rrrresearch.
**Update: For now have a read of the 2nd comment below…**
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