However, the first real public courts have recently opened in the Westway sports centre in London's White City, marking a possible change in fortunes for Eton Fives as a minor sport.

The Westfield Group ( with Hausinvest Europa ) opened a shopping centre in October 2008, bounded by the West Cross Route ( A3220, was the M41 ), the Westway ( A40, previously A40 ( M )), and Wood Lane ( opposite the BBC ), A219 ( also the old A40 ).

The Ringways scheme met considerable opposition ; there were protests when the Westway was opened in 1970 and the Archway Road public inquiry was repeatedly abandoned during the 1970s as a result of protests.

Blur's official Twitter and Facebook pages announced that the band would release two singles " The Puritan " and " Under the Westway " on 2 July.

Blur's official Twitter and Facebook pages announced that the band would release two singles " The Puritan " and " Under the Westway " on 2 July.

Westfield Group ( with Hausinvest Europa ) has built a new shopping centre, bounded by the West Cross Route ( A3220, formerly the M41 motorway ), the Westway ( A40 ) and Wood Lane ( A219 ).

Traversed by the east-west main roads of the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many international corporations have offices in the borough.

It runs east-west from the Euston Road at Regent's Park to the A40 Westway at Paddington.

At Marble Arch it joins the A5 Edgware Road as far as the Marylebone Flyover to become Westway ; formerly classified A40 ( M ) as an elevated motorway, it has now been downgraded to ' A ' road status.

The Westway is a long elevated dual carriageway section of the A40 route in west London running from Paddington to North Kensington.

It is close to the elevated Westway section of the A40 road.

It runs north from Shepherd's Bush, under the Westway ( A40 ) past Wormwood Scrubs where it meets Scrubs Lane.

Unusually, Latimer Road and the station that bears its name are not geographically close, being approximately 500 metres apart and on opposite sides of the Westway Flyover ( A40 road ) – the road being to the north and the station to the south.

East of this point is Westway, part of the A40 Central London link from Paddington.

Occasionally he would sit in a deckchair in the fast lane of the Westway ( A40 ) in North Kensington, reading the Daily Telegraph.

* Motorway Archive-A40 ( M ) Westway and M41 West Cross Route

With two exceptions, Western Avenue forms a grade-separated motorway standard dual-carriageway between Paddington ( Westway ) and the M40 motorway, which continues towards Oxford and Birmingham.

The route of the Westway was chosen to follow the easiest path from Western Avenue to Paddington by following the route of existing railway lines but passing an eight lane elevated motorway through densely populated Victorian North Kensington involved the clearance of a large number of buildings adjacent to the railway, particularly in the area west of Westbourne Park, where many roads were unceremoniously truncated or demolished to make way for the concrete structures.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

Following its closure in 1965, it was demolished to make way for the Westway urban motorway.

A twisted adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the story's protagonist, Robert Maitland, a wealthy architect, finds himself stranded in a manmade ' island ' ( a section of fenced-off wasteland in the middle of a motorway intersection ) between the Westway and an imagined spur of the M4 Motorway in west London, and is forced to survive on only what is in his crashed Jaguar and what he is able to find.

In the eastbound direction, a lane is lost as a slip-road descends to cross the National Rail tracks to Paddington station via the large plate-girder Westbourne Bridge, a road that previously carried traffic from Harrow Road to Bishops Bridge Road but was blocked at the north end and appropriated for the Westway scheme.

The full line is: " London's so nice back in your seamless rhymes, But we're lost on the Westway ".

The North Kensington Amenity Trust ( now Westway Development Trust ), was founded in 1971 to reclaim and develop this land for local community use and since 2000 local charity Urban Eye has initiated a programme of cleaning, painting and lighting to brighten up and improve the safety of the areas under the Flyover structure.

The Clash: Westway to the World is a 2000 documentary film about the British punk rock band The Clash.

* The Clash: Westway to the World ( 2000 ) ( V )

The slums were cleared during redevelopment in the 1960s and 1970s when the Westway Flyover and Trellick Tower were built.

* 06 Jan: The RHD claimed responsibility for a pipe bomb attack on the home of a prison officer at Westway Park, Belfast.

The films The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) and Never Let Go ( 1960 ) depict many Paddington streets, which suffered bombing in World War II and were subsequently demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the Westway elevated road and the Warwick Estate housing redevelopment.

** Don Letts ( video director ) & The Clash for Westway to the World

Continuing westward, the Westway runs parallel with the main-line railway for about before turning south-west at Westbourne Park and crossing the railway to run immediately adjacent to London Underground's Hammersmith and City Line for as far as Ladbroke Grove station, after which it returns to a more east-west alignment for the to the elevated roundabout junction with the West Cross Route ( A3220 ) and flyover that takes vehicles high above the roundabout and Wood Lane ( A219 ) to return to ground level and connect to the end of Western Avenue.

The Westway was built to form a link from Paddington to Ringway 1, the innermost circuit of the London Ringways network, part of a complex and comprehensive plan for a network of high speed roads circling and radiating out from central London designed to manage and control the flow of traffic within the capital.

* The cover for The Jam's This Is The Modern World was taken under the Westway.

In the late 1980s, while Warrior was still wrestling in Texas, he appeared in several TV ads for Westway Ford, a car dealership in Irving, Texas.

The adjacent bridge and nearby section of the Westway ( London ) was regenerated in 2007 in a partnership including Urban Eye, Transport for London and London Underground.

In a later interview for the rockumentary Westway to the World, he apologised about his addiction and speculated that had he not been asked to leave The Clash the band might have lasted longer and might possibly still be together.

This track is such a great groove for driving and it got its name because if I put it on at the Marylebone Road end of the Westway and stuck right on the speed limit, it would finish just as I came off the other end.

Following the demise of Westway, development of the West Side Highway evolved into two parts: a public / private partnership that evolved into the upper piers being used for recreational purposes.

She then wrote for the World Service Soap opera Westway before joining the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders in 2002.

Westway is a British television series made by HTV for ITV in 1976.

With the extension westward of the London Congestion Charge Zone between 19 February 2007 and 4 January 2011, the part of the road between Westbourne Park and the Westway roundabout that passed through the zone was designated as a " free through route " that allowed vehicles to cross the zone without paying the charge.

Plan of the London Motorway Box scheme from mid 1960s showing the Westway

* Justin Clack of Frost Meadowcroft writes about Westway ( London ) in Umbrella Magazine issue 4 in an article " Something In The Air ".

The first stretch to be built was the Westway from Marylebone to Acton, which involved the demolition of thousands of homes and building a large concrete flyover which continues to be the major route into central London from the west.

The northern stretch of this road ( from the Westway to Scrubs Lane ) runs parallel to the boundary of the London congestion charge zone.

On the album notes bass player Herbie Flowers, who co-wrote the tune with Francis Monkman, says of " Westway ": " When we recorded this album, I was living out in West London, and the studio was in Central London.

Inside the foldout sleeve are various pictures of Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies playing together underneath the Westway in London.

It focused on life in and around the fictional Westway Health Centre in west London, and was named after the main route into London from the north west.