Junction of Brentford High Street with Ealing Road, looking west in 1961 and showing the old Red Lion pub on the corner. There has been a Red Lion in Old Brentford since at least the 1660s, presumably on this site. The pub was rebuilt in 1907 and demolished in 1970. The old name for Ealing Road was Drum Lane as there had been a pub on the east side of the junction called the Drum Inn since at least 1722. It had been demolished in 1921 for an earlier road widening exercise. Up to the 1960s shops and houses lined the High Street right up to the junction with Ealing Road but the council was pursing its policy of opening up the area, and when this photograph was taken there were already plans for widening the road and improving the road junction. The modern view shows Osier Court, built in the late 1980s on the west side of the junction and the McDonald’s fast food outlet on the east side which replaced the modern Red Lion pub. From Carolyn and Peter Hammond’s 2006 book Then & Now Brentford.