Hi Anchorman, it IS an old image of Boscombe Road now, but it wasn't when I put it up first some years ago :-) That image is from 1999.
The 'factory unit' is now demolished and the house beside it in Westville Road extended or knocked down and on the footprint of both either a new build house of part of the adjacent Greenside Primary School which shares a similar white boxy build. It's also possible the new build is part of RPM in Godwin road at the Old Treacle Factory....you just can't make it out for certain. EDIT: See below....
The Google earth image from 2006 is the sharpest due to some oblique sunlight. In 2008 the workshop appear to be roofless...you can make out the rooms inside. In 2010 it really does look like a new-build house.
In 1984 the premises of 50-52( they share a front door)had an enforcement notice served on them for extending the building into the rear garden. This appears to be a conversion of an allowed PVC canopy from 1979...the same year a recording studio was allowed in the basement!
Nothing on the Hammersmith and Fulham website mentions the workshop in Westville Road.
What is there now,I think it's flats..there are several letterboxes, seem to bear the numbers 124 and 132 on the gates. That would make the school 102 to 122...which might be right.
13 pages of Westville Road building applications and I can find nothing for a number so high.....but I can find applications for 180, 182 and 184 which appear not to exist!
OK, I think I've worked it out. In 2009 the local Council acquired the workshop and gave it the new addresses of 180, 182 and 184 Westville Road W12 9PT. These three flats were built as social housing in accordance with Government instructions to Councils to utilise all un-used land that might be made into housing.
The flats are administrated by Octavia Housing, who I knew of when I worked in nearby Notting Hill in the Seventies and Eighties.
At sometime the Council has obtained the old workshop, possibly as a Compulsory Purchase but I can find no record of that yet.
What is surprising is that there appears to be no direct access to the workshop from No.52:
The above is the plan used in a recent urgent application to increase the boundary wall height and provide a window to a bathroom of one of the flats.
The current layout of nos. 50 and 52..it seems clear they were two properties once, but now share a front door. I've no idea what the 22 behind them is but it might have once provided direct access to the workshop.
Ah..got it! 22 Goodwin Road is the recording studio that was once part on 52 Boscombe Road:
http://public-access.lbhf.gov.uk/online ... 8901812FUL
Fancy letting a recording studio be there.....making reels and rod fitting must have been much quieter......
I've just discovered No 42 was a dairy in 1946 the application by Messrs'. Garland and Place. Garland was a fairly common name in Hammersmith. Might these people be the proprietors of WR Products....the name doesn't fit though....
The unit went on to became a model-making studio which applied for a first floor to added in 1973 . This was initially refused as it would detriment any addition 'to the Starch green Luncheon Club'....this refusal was also sent to all the Boscombe Road houses we are interested in, including No.52...perhaps this Club was behind all of them? It seems to have gone ahead in 1977 though and this was later converted into 3 flats in 2009...the same year the workshop was converted to housing. Below was an electronics studio and as stated, later a recording studio though this was also part of No.52 Boscombe Road.