The LT Area 3: West London

The third volume in our LT Area books looks at London Transport bus operations in the former LT Central Area of West London. Jim Blake has combed his extensive archives to provide fresh material, since the vast majority of the 360 or so photographs included have not been published before. Most of the pictures were taken between 1967 and 1984, when London Transport was destroyed by the Thatcher regime. However, there are also some more recent scenes, to give a flavour of how the area covered has changed subsequently. By 'West London', we mean those areas with London areas beyond the West End with London 'W' postcodes, and then those beyond the London Postal Area out as far as such places as Slough, Staines and Uxbridge, with the River Thames and, beyond Kew, the Bath Road and then the Staines Road as the southern border and the Harrow Road as the northern. We have also included those areas with London 'SW' postcodes which are north of the Thames, for example Chelsea, Fulham and South Kensington.