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Old Posted Oct 23, 2007, 7:29 PM
TheBoingoBandit TheBoingoBandit is offline
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London's Art Deco supermarket! Plus BONUS pix - London's American Diner!

Built in the thirties and located in Perivale West London, the Hoover building was originally designed as a factory for vacuum cleaners.

After Hoover left the site and some of the buildings were knocked down, Tesco bought the site and turned it into a supermaket.



























While the exterior is obviously impressive, the interior sadly looks no different from any other branch.




More information here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Building
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Old Posted Oct 23, 2007, 7:39 PM
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Just across the road there is also a genuine imported American diner (that was orginally located at Manchester in the north of England), Starvin Marvin's...












More information here... http://www.starvinmarvins.co.uk/site.asp
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