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Old 15th Nov 2018, 12:21 pm   #1
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I found this shop in London, at least Tescos haven't destroyed the signs. It is at the juction of the A315 and B363 near Brentford.
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Old 15th Nov 2018, 1:00 pm   #2
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Yes, well done Tescos for retaining the period signage. If only all their conversions were as sensitive.
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It just needs a small corner with the odd portable radio/tv and a few batteries and cables from somewhere in the wider Tescos range and it would even be meaningful....
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Ketts….there might have been a bit of a planning hoo ha with that.

https://osterleyspringgrove.org/2015...n-london-road/

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..It may of course have been a condition of the purchase/lease/conversion- it must reduce their visual impact to the passer-by when the shop is seen from oblique angles. I do not find that they are traditionally a great respecter of heritage unless they are told to be. Dave
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Tesco will do anything to get a store location including making new land out of thin air.
However things do not always go smoothly for them.
Train services were cancelled because there was a Tesco superstore on the lines.
It was a better excuse than leaves on the lines.
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Funny thing is I live round the corner from there and drive past it about 20 times a week and didn’t even notice! Going to specsavers I think
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I got the picture from Google Earth, the next time I am near there (I am a serial visitor to the Kew Steam Museum) I will take some proper ones. May well pop inside to see the layout too. I do wonder what is behind the Tesco sign.
 
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It's embarrassing that the Victorians managed cut and cover technology when starting the London underground, yet we fouled up the 'cover' bit of it all this time later. By rushing it, presumably.
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A local newspaper covered the story:-

https://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news...slice-11425703


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Reactive not proactive!

The flake-paint looks like it's on glass, remarkable survival.
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Tesco did a good job converting the old Hoover building at Perivale. J.
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Yes that’s positively impressive that one.
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I remember it as Ketts, as I have lived not far away for 70 years!.
Never been in the shop though.
Nice to see the old bicycle and radio signs back, wonder of Tesco get any people going in the shop for a bike!

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Only on the way home from the pub
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I see no "signage" on the bit that the Tesco logo covers, well done Tesco.

I bet someone will complain that they can't get "Cycles Accessories Radios Televisions" in the store. I have just 'phoned Tesco and indeed you can't get them delivered to that shop (or any Tesco Express) but you can to home, complaint rejected!

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I wonder what they'd say if I went in there and asked for an ECC85 or an EM84 or even better a PX4!
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I wonder what they'd say if I went in there and asked for an ECC85 or an EM84 or even better a PX4!
...now if it had been in Barnet and they had took over Mr Bearman's shop LOL
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I wonder what they'd say if I went in there and asked for an ECC85 or an EM84 or even better a PX4!
"Duuuuhhhh?"

Probably.

There is an interesting PX4 drone autopilot available, though......
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