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The area to the west of Wood Lane, north of Loftus Road stadium, south of Du Cane Road and east of Bloemfontein Road was laid out as the exhibition site. The numerous pavilions faced with white stone earned the exhibition the nickname " the White City " which subsequently remained with the area, even after the exhibition closed and its ...
Shepherd's Bush: L&SWR: 1869: 1916: Shepherd's Bush Road, north of Sulgrave Road Shepherd's Bush: Central line: 1900: open: Shepherd's Bush Green east end Shepherd's Bush Market: Hammersmith & City line Circle line: 1914: open: Uxbridge Road: originally named Shepherd's Bush (1914–2008) and moved from original 1864 site in 1914 Shepherd's ...
Boscia foetida, commonly known as the stink shepherd's tree and the smelly shepherd's bush, [1] is an evergreen shrub or tree that is native to the warmer and drier parts southern Africa. [2] It is found in semi-desert and arid bushveld , and in the west it occurs commonly in areas which are otherwise sparsely wooded. [ 3 ]
Loftus Road, currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers Football Club, with a capacity of 18,439. In 1981, it became the first stadium in British professional football to have an artificial pitch of Omniturf installed ...
Roseford Court is a large tower block built as part of a public housing project in the 1970s in Shepherd's Bush, London. It is located on the south side of Shepherd's Bush Green and falls just outside the Shepherd's Bush Conservation Area. Although built as public housing, a number of the flats are now privately owned and are regularly offered ...
Woodford Court, Shepherd's Bush West12 Shopping Centre with Woodford Court in the background Woodford Court is a large public housing project completed in 1974 in Shepherd's Bush , London. It is located on the south side of Shepherd's Bush Green and falls just outside the Shepherd's Bush Conservation Area .
Shepherd's Bush, from an 1841 London map by Davies. The origins of the name Shepherds Bush are obscure. The name may have originated from the use of the common land here as a resting point for shepherds on their way to Smithfield Market in the City of London. There appears to have been an ancient custom of pruning a hawthorn bush to provide a ...
The Cleverly estate is a Peabody Trust housing estate in Shepherd's Bush, London, completed in 1928, and designed by Victor Wilkins. [1] It was the first Peabody estate built with a bathroom in every flat, and has "the most elaborate exterior features" of any of their pre-war estates. [1] Bomb damage after a direct hit from a V1 rocket in 1945