| Summary : Former site of a railway station, now London Underground station. Until the early 1930s, when factories and small houses began to appear in the area, the hamlet of Perivale lay amidst fields on the slopes north of the River Brent. Mass concrete foundations for a new station to replace the Great Western Railway halt of 1904 had been laid in 1938, and in 1946 work started on the station building. Completed to a design by Brian Lewis, the structure was set against the railway viaduct with a curved red brick frontage and narrow ticket hall of quadrant plan and a sweeping canopy along the front of the deep ring beam. The large upper window with reinforced concrete mullions of the double height ticket office was to be found in several Underground stations designed during this period. Above the window were courses of soldier bricks forming a parapet wall. The station opened to Central line trains on 30th June 1947. |