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Uxbridge Road

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Uxbridge Road is the name of the A4020 road in West London. The 12-mile (19 km) route starts at Shepherd's Bush Green and goes west towards Uxbridge. It passes through Acton, Ealing, Hanwell, Southall, Hayes, Harrow and Hillingdon. Uxbridge Road is a major road in west London passing through many retail and large residential districts. It provides several transport connections for commuters with many London Underground stations situated either on it or within walking distance. A number of London buses also operate along the road, for varying distances. Bus routes 207, 427 and 607 are specifically designed to operate along this road, staying on it for their entire route. The road has become notorious for traffic jams, especially during "rush hour" and many drivers will do their best to avoid it. The road does not become a motorway at any stage, nor does it meet any motorways along its route, but it does meet non-motorway trunk roads: namely the West Cross Route, North Circular Road, and The Parkway In a 1912 book of verse Evelyn Underhill published a poem entitled "Uxbridge Road". In 1972, the thirty-third episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus featured a sketch about a team of mountaineers "climbing" the Uxbridge Road.

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Uxbridge Road
Fordhook Avenue, London Acton (London Borough of Ealing)

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Fordhook Avenue

Fordhook Avenue
W5 3LR London, Acton (London Borough of Ealing)
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Ealing Common Depot
Ealing Common Depot

Ealing Common Depot is a London Underground railway depot on the District line, located between Acton Town and Ealing Common stations in west London, England. It is the oldest of the main depots on the Underground, having been built in 1905, when the District Railway was upgraded for electric traction. All depot facilities were moved there from Lillie Bridge Depot, and it was known as Mill Hill Park Works. It subsequently became Ealing Common Works, and its status was reduced to that of a depot in 1922, when Acton Works was opened, and took over responsibility for all major overhauls. Most of the functions of Acton Works were devolved back to the depots, including Ealing Common, in 1985. Extensive remodelling of the tracks around the depot took place in the 1930s, when the route from Acton Town to Northfields was quadrupled, and the local eastbound track from South Ealing station tunnels under some of the sidings in the depot. In 1990, a heavy repair shop was built at the southern end of the depot, but this function was transferred back to Acton Works, and the building is now used for storage of artefacts for the London Transport Museum. Access to the depot by rail can be gained from both tracks at Ealing Common station, where the junction is to the south of the platforms. At the southern end of the depot, a steep incline leads down to the two eastbound platforms at Acton Town station. Road access is from the A4020 Uxbridge Road at the north end, and a service road from the A4000 Gunnersbury Lane leads to the museum depot. One of the first uses of the depot in 1905 was the storage of redundant steam locomotives, displaced by the new electric multiple units, pending disposal, and a regular steam service between Lillie Bridge and the depot operated for many years, for the transfer of stores. From 1932 a small number of Piccadilly line trains were also stored at the depot, and a small number of District line trains were stored at Northfields Depot, but this practice ended in 1964. The depot is now used for the storage of trains for the District line, and the number of trains required has steadily increased. It also carries out engineering work, and the final commissioning of the D78 Stock took place at the depot from 1979.

Three Wheels Temple

Three Wheels is a Shin Buddhist temple in London, England, founded in 1994. It is the London branch of Shogyōji (正行寺), a temple in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, which has affiliations with the larger Higashi Hongan-ji (Ōtani-ha) branch of Shin Buddhism.: 286  The temple was founded by Kemmyō Taira Sato, a former pupil of D. T. Suzuki,: 10 : 291  supporting both the local Japanese diaspora and non-Japanese attendees. The temple is spread across three buildings, with a main building holding the primary altar and two separate buildings used for events and hosting guests, alongside a Zen garden. The Zen garden was designed by John White, art historian and professor at University College London,: 15–16  and it opened in 1997.: 290  Three Wheels conducts daily services, meditation sessions, twice-yearly shokai retreats (a term coined from two characters meaning "to flow" and "to open") involving communal meals, dharma talks, and chanting,: 297  and services such as funerals and weddings. The temple also hosts bi-monthly eza gatherings, which feature dharma talks in English.: 289  The term "eza" means "to meet and sit": 296  and is a distinctive practice within the Shogyōji lineage of temples, compared with wider the Shin Buddhist movement.: 289  Since 1997, Three Wheels has conducted a yearly Annual Ceremony to Pray for World Peace and Reconciliation between British and Japanese War Veterans.: 11 

Murder of Jean Bradley
Murder of Jean Bradley

The murder of Jean Bradley was the notorious and apparently motiveless stabbing of a woman in Acton, London on 25 March 1993. The case made headline news at the time due to a dramatic chase of the killer by a witness and since it was the second unexplained stabbing of a woman in west London in the early 1990s following the murder of Penny Bell in 1991. Despite the high profile of the killing and an appeal on the prime-time programme Crimewatch in the same year, the murder remains unsolved. Several people witnessed the murder and a passing carpenter came face-to-face with the killer during a confrontation before pursuing him for over a mile as he ran from the scene, with the attacker being last seen walking up Buckland Walk walking towards Acton High Street. The murderer, described as a strange individual, was noted for wearing a peculiar sou'wester hat and had been carrying the knife he used to repeatedly stab Bradley inside a black bag. With the killer having been seen by several witnesses, including the carpenter who confronted the man, detectives were confident of quickly solving the case, with the lead detective on the case commenting: "when we find the man, we will have no difficulty with identification". A local man with severe mental health problems was charged with the murder later in the year after key witnesses, including the man who had chased him, picked him out in identification parades. However, a magistrate unexpectedly dismissed the case against him at the early stages due to the fact that other witnesses had not identified him. No other suspects have ever been arrested or charged since. In 2008, the case returned to the news when there was speculation linking the murder to Robert Napper, who had just been convicted of the infamous murder of Rachel Nickell. However, no links were found and Napper does not match the descriptions given by the witnesses who saw and confronted the killer. The murder, an apparently random attack by a stranger, continues to receive publicity.