Trellick Tower towers about No 2 Wharf from across the Grand Union Canal. The site appeared to be in use by a Chinese company, though the notice on the gate saying it is in constant use was clearly not true.
 
The centre of the building was I think originally open, with the corrugated iron sheeting above the gates being a more recent addition below the empty name board. Through the split in the sheeting - perhaps where a careless driver backed into it - you can just see the top of the wide opening onto the canalside wharf. At right, behind the telegraph pole is a small substation of the London Electricity Board.
 
Fermoy Road and the adjoining Hormead Road were named in 1885, and houses built in Fermoy Road around 1886, with Hormead Road, then a nursery, being built on in the early 1890s. The whole western end of Hormead Road now has a long range of flats, built on the site of Hormead Wharf in the 1990s, with a small dock for mooring three narrow boats at right angles to the canal at each end. No2 Wharf on Fermoy Road was located just a few yards to the west. Fermoy is a town in County Cork, Ireland while presumably the name Hormead comes from the Hertfordshire villages of Little and Great Hormead.
 
This building has a particular interest for vegetarians and vegans, for it was here that Lung Kee set up a company, possibly in the early 1960s, for producing bean sprouts and tofu. According to the 'History of Soy in the UK and Ireland (1613-2015)', Craig Sams who set up the macrobiotic natural foods restaurant 'Seed' in Westbourne Terrace in December 1967 (as well as Whole Earth Foods, Ceres and later Green & Blacks Organic Chocolate, more to my taste) used to buy fresh tofu and mung bean sprouts from Lung Kee here and stated that the business run by Lung Kee employed about 15 West Indian/Jamaican women who made the foods. Among Sams's customers were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Yoko Ono. I think Lung Kee went out of business before I took this picture, and was probably the Lung Kee Limited listed in the London Gazette as having been dissolved in 1977.
 
Sams, born in Nebraska, is also a leading member of the Soil Association and is still a director, having been Chair from 2001-7. My late father, who among his various trades was also a gardener, belonged to this and I grew up fed on organic vegetables and fruit, though we were not vegetarians, and macrobiotic food which I first ate visiting Amsterdam in 1986 seemed than a step too far. The large garden where Dad grew much of our food (he also had an allotment and our own smaller garden at the back of the house) is now a road of small houses in Hounslow.