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Old Daniels store Uxbridge Road

Does anyone have any photos please of the old Daniels store on Uxbridge Road?
I amy trying to establish exactly where Miles Jewellers was sited (it formed part of the store) for a relative of the last owners.
Please post a lnk to any photos you may have.
Many thanks

N V Brooks ● 1772d26 Comments

I recall visiting a jewellers in the same block as Daniels in my childhood with my parents so that would have been well after 1960. It was a standalone shop next to Daniels and it had a black (marble?) stone cladding wit, I think though cannot be certain, a clock inset into the black stone on one side of the entrance. It was a very traditional jewellers inside and it was definitely not part of the Daniels department store.

Mark Julian Raymond ● 1767d

From Kemps Directory for 1960The North side of Uxbridge Road from the Broadway94 The Anchor (pub)96-108 Daniels110 Jones Optician112 W.H.Smith114 Mills Cafe116 Miles Jeweller118 Blower Dentist120 Stevenson Tobacconist122 Freeman Hardy and WillisBroughton Road.So that in 1960, Daniels only occupied premisesup to no 108. Possibly Daniels owned the freeholdsand the leases on all the other shops fell inon some date in the interim. With the exception of Miles at least.What's intersting is that down the thread various  referencesare made to Daniels upstairs restaurant. Now from memory, from around 1962-4, I can remember eating in an upstairs restaurant with maybe dark panelling on the walls and a skylight overhead. This room was definitely longer than it was wide. Now I'd always thought that this was accessed by a door and an interior stairs next to Miles the jewellers;but as the photo clearly shows that Miles and the adjacent shops were only single story, this can't have been correct.michael adams

Michael Adams ● 1767d

Good thought, thank you!

Dave Hawley ● 1767d

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Mark Julian Raymond ● 1768d

In going from a jewellers to a tatoo parlour the premises would have required a changw of use and planning permission, the council's planning department records should have that on file which will give you a date from when it changed

Mark Julian Raymond ● 1768d

Incidentally Google provide a free app called "PhotoScan" which is fairly good at making a digital copy of photo prints without the glare.  Obviously you need a fairly decent camera on your android phone to start off with.  Then experiment a bit - I find it works best for me without using the camera flash.

Philip Coe ● 1768d

How wonderful!I wish I could find my photo of it, but I'm having no luck so far. I took it when I realised that it was closing down as a jewellers, so if anyone can remember what year that was, that would be a great help.I can't actually remember how long the shop was a tattoo parlour, but it was obviously longer than I thought it was because I've been back through my photos well into the late 90s and I still can't find the one I'm looking for!

Dave Hawley ● 1768d

I don't suppose that anyone has a puctiure of the upstairs cafe at Daniels, t was very posh and very proper?

Mark Julian Raymond ● 1768d

Thanks Dave, would you believe that the person looking for the image has just been sent a watercolour painting by Terrence Nolder of the shop?

N V Brooks ● 1768d

I've just realised the sign says "Tattoo".Miles became a tattoo parlour for a few years after it closed as a jewellers of course, until it was demolished!

Dave Hawley ● 1768d

This is the best I've got, taken in 2004.http://www.coremuscle.co.uk/daniels.jpgMiles is where the red neon sign is.I'm pretty sure I took a picture just of the shop when I found out it was closing, but it wasn't taken at the time of this shot, and I cannot find it! If I do I will post it.Sorry for the poor quality, it's a photo of a print, as I cannot use my scanner at the moment.Cheers, Dave.

Dave Hawley ● 1768d

The Daniels department store had a very fine traditional cafe/restaurant on its uppermost floor, where it served a very fine 'Breakfast' not an 'English Breakfast' as so many of the awful so-called 'Cafes' and 'Coffee Shops' provide in Ealing with their awful tasteless 'turkey bacon' and awful turkey or beef sausages, Daniels had the real deal, pork bacon, pork sausages, it knew what a 'poached egg' was. Different, more civilised times. Uniformed, demure, pleasant staff. Such a contrast to the rude and gutteral cafes and coffee shops of today's Ealing continually change hange  and open and shut down, a sad loss when it closed, Daniels was

Mark Julian Raymond ● 1768d

Thanks Eileen, nothing on Collage but I will certainly 'point' the person seeking the image to the local history archives. Many thanks.

N V Brooks ● 1769d

It might be worth contacting Ealing local history archives. Until recently they were based at the central library, Ealing shopping centre. I think they have been relocated following the recent refurbishment of the library. I have always found them very helpful and knowledgeable. They do hold local photographs, including a lot of Ealing shops. As a shot in the dark it might be worth looking at the very varied collection of London photographs which can be done online. They are  held by London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall. Online at -  https://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/. I think there are costs from collage dependant on the use of the photographs - commercial usage, copyright etc..

Eileen Sanderson ● 1769d

Thanks for this, watched the episode of Jonathon Creek - great to see the interior of the old Wimpy. Did Jonathon buy that tramp a bottle of methylated spirits though?

Jim McCauley ● 1770d

Recalling the Creek episode has jogged my memory further. The window/door of Miles Jewellers was actually featured in a tv programme. But sorry, I cannot recall the programme - the jeweller's frontage was used as a pawn-broker's for the scene, with the actor leaving the shop, disgruntled with the valuation of his item still in his hand.  The programme was decades ago, could have been Fools and Horses. Something of that ilk.  I think the item the character had in his hand wans't gold, hence his disappointment. I do vividly remember it was Miles Jewellers. Curved glass window, dark brown timberwork. Very old fashioned, even in the 70's/80's.

Tony Heath ● 1771d

Sadly only (the late lamented) Bensteads and the Wimpy are shown.

N V Brooks ● 1771d

The episode of Jonathan Creek (series 2, episode 2) entitled 'Time Stops For Norman' (1998) was partly filmed on the south side of Uxbridge Rd (outside what was records/electrical shop Bensteads), with cameras pointing on/around the West Ealing Wimpy Bar.  Not sure if any views further east were involved . . . .

Tony Heath ● 1771d

I have to admit I started looking at these last week. I found two shots.
One had the awnings down so you can't see either the name of the shop window and the other — taken from across the road— has got a ruddy trolly bus parked at the bus stop which was directly outside, so again, you can't see a thing.
Cracking thought though.

N V Brooks ● 1771d

Re. images of the jewellers attached to the old Daniels store.  Maybe try trawling through the various old tram videos of Ealing/Uxbridge Road.  Just a thought.

Tony Heath ● 1771d

Thanks Fred but there is only one very long distance shot of the Ealing branch.

N V Brooks ● 1771d

There are some on the Daniels web site - https://www.danielstores.co.uk/daniel-100-years-i24

Fred Hunt ● 1771d

As do I, they used to do amazing afternoon teas.

N V Brooks ● 1771d

Thanks Pat, Sadly it is photos that I am after for the granddaughter of the last owners. I remember both the jewellers and the lovely little bakers.

N V Brooks ● 1771d

I remember fondly the old restaurant on the top floor of Daniels!

Jim McCauley ● 1771d

Sorry no photos but as I recall Miles the jewellers was originally where there is now a bed store and a Co-Op.  It was next door to what was Mills Bakers. Hope that helps.

Pat Kingham ● 1771d