ray
Registered: December 2005
Posts: 65
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This superb building has gone downhill slightly since this photo was taken. Broken windows mean that shards of glass can fall onto the street below in heavy winds, despite most of them being boarded up (from the inside!).
Typically the council don't seem interested in this health & safety issue, blaming the responsibility on the owners.
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pianola
Registered: July 2007
Location: London
Posts: 66
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With the pressing need for housing, and the centenary of this building coming up in two years' time, I could imagine the council might earn itself a lot of brownie points by allowing it to be developed as apartments. It's very close to Heathrow, the spaces inside must be wonderful, and it wouldn't mean destroying any nice fields. And I could see "my" clock being preserved and perhaps renovated. What I would give to see the hands moving!
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MIDDX.NET
Registered: March 2004
Posts: 5734
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You're right you know. What a superb idea!
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pianola
Registered: July 2007
Location: London
Posts: 66
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Before the plans are drawn up, let me put in a plea for a performance space of some sort, so that we can have the odd pianola concert, perhaps doubling as a local history display area. Very strangely, I met a Hillingdon councillor about four years ago in Southampton, at my cousin's wedding, and she told me that the clock is listed, and that the council really didn't know what to do about the building. How about "Aeolian Hall" as a name?
I'm gonna keep posting piccies. You never know where it leads.
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