THE ROUTE DID YOU KNOW? Starting at the Goldhawk Road underground station, 1 SHEPHERDS BUSH MARKET started exit into Wells Road. in 1914. Following severe bomb damage in the Second World War, the traders cleared the rubble Turn right to the controlled crossing over Goldhawk themselves, avoiding the threat of closure. Road to the entrance of Shepherds Bush Market. Walk through the market to the Uxbridge Road exit. 2 THE DIMCO BUILDINGS are the original coal-powered electricity generating station built for Turn right into Uxbridge Road and using the controlled London Underground in 1898. BOROUGH WALKS - 8 crossing, turn right and then left into Hopgood Street. Proceed left again into Macfarlane Road and follow the 3 THE BBC TELEVISION CENTRE started in road around into Wood Lane. 1950, is built on part of the White City Exhibition site which opened in 1908 with the Franco-British Beyond Turn left on to Wood Lane, walking under the railway Exhibition. bridge and past BBC Television Centre to your left and 4 THE BBC MEDIA VILLAGE is on the site of White City underground station to your right. the former White City Stadium, which hosted the the Bush Noting the historically named Exhibition Close, turn left 1908 Olympics. It held 150,000 people. into South Africa Road. 5 DORANDO CLOSE commemorates Dorando Follow South Africa Road past the Territorial Army Pietri, the marathon runner, who so narrowly Centre and the sports area and turn left into missed winning in 1908. Although first to finish, he Hammersmith Park. was disqualified for being helped over the line. Follow the path straight ahead. Walk to the right of the 6 THE STONE DECORATION (animals, birds metal sculpture through the gate towards the Japanese and plants) on either side of the doors in Frithville Gardens are unusual examples of their kind. Garden. (Take care crossing the bridge.) © By:design – December 2016 020 8753 1764 Ref:215_67cc Map by Urban Partnership Group Exit at Frithville Gardens and continue to the end 7 THE FIRST CUSTOM-BUILT FILM turning right into Uxbridge Road. STUDIO in the UK was erected in Lime Grove in 1915. It became the home of British feature films Cross at the refuge (or use the controlled crossing by and newsreels. Gaumont Terrace and Gainsborough Shepherds Bush Police Station) and turn left into Lime Court are a reminder of the film companies. Grove. 8 HAMMERSMITH PUBLIC BATHS AND Follow Lime Grove until it reaches Goldhawk Road. WASH HOUSE, 1905, was an important communal place for women to meet and launder Turn left to return to Goldhawk Road underground the clothes of their large families before washing station. machines became widespread.

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Bomb damage, MacFarlane Road, November 1940