Old Wembley Stadium station
 

Thanks to all who have revived this topic, and my memories. I worked at Art
Metals
in the early 1960s, and later briefly at BCC, before it became part of Racal.
I'm not sure but I think Art Metals was on Second Way. Across the street was
Dring's, a sausage factory belonging to Walls.
Coming out of Art Metals and turning right towards Wembley Park there was a
footbridge over the railway and a cafe in part of a factory building. The
station was in use on evenings when there was a match or event at the stadium.

As someone else says one of the old ponds survived near the stadium, though in
a sorry state, with the remains of an ornamental bridge. From talking to people
and looking at old pictures I think this had been a Chinese garden, similar to
the Willow pattern, from the Exhibition days. And that smallish half-domed
building someone mentioned was either the Cyprus or Malta stand. Saw a fox
crossing its
back car park one afternoon last year as I was passing on the top of the 83.
I seem to remember the Palace of Engineering with its lions outside being used
by GEC and/or HMSO as a warehouse before the carpet people came.
And I remember now looking down on the other, Marylebone, line through Wembley
Hill (as today's Wembley Stadium station was called then) from the back of the
BCC factory. British Communications Company incidentally, which produced
equipment for the armed forces, was an almost entirely Polish company from the
directors (all called "Wing Commander Somethingochevsky" etc) down, though they
also acquired a place behind Wembley High Road where they employed a lot of
West Indian women. Those young gentlemen who have called the area a "dump" and
doubted its contribution to the economy might be surprised to learn that back
in those days, when folk in London (and Britain) actually made stuff, the North
West quarter of London, from Acton round in an arc through Brent to Hendon, was
one of Europe's major industrial areas.