This new road, known at first as the Brentford by-pass, was opened by King George V in 1925. For two miles, from its junction with the North Circular Road and Chiswick High Road to Gillette Corner, a corridor of inter-war factory buildings emerged, a stylish celebration of art deco architecture. This handsome book has expanded and updated the author’s original history of the road, published in 1995. Packed with illustrations, including some specially commissioned new photographs, it tells the story of the road, from the earliest discussions about whether it should be built at all, right up to the present day. James Marshall first published a history of the Road in 1995, when he was a member of the Local History team at Hounslow Council’s Library Service. His 32-year career caring for these collections has given him an unrivalled knowledge of this part of West London which has informed this definitive history.