Marian
Registered: February 2008
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I think these are marvellous pictures. Am puzzling over where and what this place was, and wonder if anyone else knows. Thankyou.
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ray
Registered: December 2005
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Isn't this where the Bingo Hall now stands on the Uxbridge Road near The Grapes junction?
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MIDDX.NET
Registered: March 2004
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Oh wow, I wonder if you're right. There's a little road there called The Warren. If you are right, what more evidence is needed that time is not always an improver of things.
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ray
Registered: December 2005
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Indeed.....
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Pam
Registered: April 2004
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It was The Savoy cinema years ago & then was renamed The Essoldo before it became a bingo hall I believe.
(The original Essoldo was back down the Uxbridge Rd near Lansbury Drive.)
This photo must be quite old, I wonder if any of the original building still remains?
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Pam
Registered: April 2004
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Just had a thought. If it IS 'The Warren' maybe it was just that! i.e. just a building before it became a road & not on the Uxbridge Rd at all?
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MIDDX.NET
Registered: March 2004
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Maybe it was a building on the Uxbridge Road called The Warren, and when it was demolished, a little road was named after where it once stood.
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MIDDX.NET
Registered: March 2004
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.... we'll have to look at some of the very old maps we have elsewhere in the albums.
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Pam
Registered: April 2004
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Thanks. Would love to know!
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ray
Registered: December 2005
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There is no doubt that this is the site of The Warren.
Bear in mind also that the health centre behind the bingo hall is called The Warren Health Centre so this patch of land goes back a fair way from the main road, as indicated by the original photograph.
'The Warren' roadway simply links the Uxbridge Road to the rear car park and health centre and is just another way to perpetuate the name of the former building.
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ray
Registered: December 2005
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Wasn't the cinema, on the site of what is now Colman House near Lansbury Drive, called the Corinth?
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Pam
Registered: April 2004
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Yes Ray.(Also known as the 'bughouse'!)
Then it went all 'posh & bacame 'The Essoldo'! 
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Pam
Registered: April 2004
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Yes Ray.(Also known as the 'bughouse'!)
Then it went all 'posh' & became 'The Essoldo'!
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Pam
Registered: April 2004
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Sorry about the double entry, tried to edit the first one (spelling error!) And this is what happened!
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howard64
Registered: June 2007
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I wish I'd bought this postcard now! There is always a danger with eBay that the seller mistakenly lists items in the wrong county. Both Hayes and Ashford Middlesex are often wrongly listed in the Kent sections, and vice-versa. I will keep an eye out for this place when I visit postcard fairs. It is a beautiful building - imagine if such a building still existed in the Hayes we know now.
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Marian
Registered: February 2008
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Just logged off and then saw this post as well. I firstly wondered if it was the wrong county, but from some of the info here, it looks as if The Warren did exist in Hayes.
I am going to ask my Mum if she knows although it's a long way back for her to remember. I know there was the Blue Pool somewhere in that area and she does remember that. I have looked up hospitals, homes, and even where a famous person could have lived but I am no wiser. It was a surprise to see such a lovely house by that name in Hayes so will have to keep investigating. :-)
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ray
Registered: December 2005
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There was a Blue Pool nearby Marian....it was built on the site of The Warren and hence eventually became....
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Marian
Registered: February 2008
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Thanks Ray. That building didn't look as bad as that when it was the Savoy cinema but I would rather see The Warren there.
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ray
Registered: December 2005
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Indeed, or even the Blue Pool....
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Marian
Registered: February 2008
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Yes, even that is better. I'm intrigued as to whether those two houses are the Uxbridge Road end or a road behind where The Blue Pool was.
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Marian
Registered: February 2008
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Have had a chat with my Mum after her having a chance to see the Picture of the Wareen, the Blue Pool and the now Bingo Hall in Hayes. She can't remember a house like the Warren although she says how distinctive it is. She does remember, though, the allotments along there in that are which were called the Warren. She said she could get to them by going along by the Adam and Eve. Peas and strawberries were grown there and she used to play there and could walk across to Yeading Lane. She used to go to the Blue Pool on Saturday mornings. When the cinema was there, she recalled seeing a Laurel and Hardy film with my Dad when he was on leave. The seats shook so much from firing in Shakespeare Avenue that she was scared and remembers running home across the Uxbridge Road with my Dad. The Doodle-Bug fell and hit the EMI and she said the noise was deafening and she was glad to get home to their air-raid shelter. She feels that she would have known about the house called The Warren because it would have been the sort with maids and servants, but all she can remember are the fields and allotments called
The Warren.
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MIDDX.NET
Registered: March 2004
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I'm starting to think that maybe The Warren was somewhere else. I don't know why, but I've got a nagging feeling that I've read somewhere before, in one of the Hayes history books possibly, that it was in the Freeman's Lane area. I wonder if Philip Sherwood knows.
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Marian
Registered: February 2008
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Mystery solved!! Not in our Hayes at all! Have a look on www.bikesafe-london.co.uk/warren.htm and you will see The Warren behind the bikers in Hayes, Kent. Interest also for past bikers with the Ace cafe mentioned.
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ray
Registered: December 2005
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Nice one Marian. The curse of Hayes, Kent strikes again.
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Marian
Registered: February 2008
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Yes, it does confuse things with there being the other Hayes. I found that The Warren in Hayes Kent was built in 1882 in the Dutch Renaissance style and was extended over the years. It was once lived in by Martin Smith who was the brother-in-law of Sir Everard Hambro of Hayes Place (William Pitt had lived there before, I think). The Warren, I believe, is a Grade 11 listed building and from 1914 -1916 was used as a hospital for Military patients. It is now used by the Met. Police as their Sportsground, and the place seems to be available for booking different events. If Howard64 looks in, I thought this history may be of interest even if it is Hayes in Kent and not Hayes, and as we liked the building so much.
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Marian
Registered: February 2008
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Sorry .. I meant that William Pitt had lived at Hayes Place, not The Warren, as far as I could make out.
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MIDDX.NET
Registered: March 2004
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Excellent detective work Marian. Many thanks indeed for clearing that up.
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