The entrance is imposing - a flight of shallow steps, two lamps framing it and tiling in poster red, turquoise green and ultramarine blue, with the 'F' for Firestone picked out in gilt.

The Twentieth Century Society website, Campaigning for Twentieth century architecture, notes 'the design of the whole building, not just the façade, was based on that of an Egyptian temple'. Their website includes three photos of the building, one of which shows the two lamps clearly.

The final photo, 3 March 1974, shows part of Firestone's roof furniture and lots of other verticals.

The gasometer near St George's church is visible and the tower block in the distance MAY be the Police Section House on St Paul's Road / Half Acre.

Robert Hurst wrote in May 2017 with more information: 'I believe the towers (there are two adjoined together) are the higher building used by SKY TV now on the rhs of the pic (obscuring the gasometer), and (most importantly for me) the shorter building to its left joined by the staircase seen through glass, is the place where I worked for many years in late 1970's : "Great West House". At that time it was the hq for Honeywell Computers.'

'You may see from Google Earth that there is annotated a picture of G.W.House taken April 2007 showing the new extra floor atop the exec offices where I once worked (not my pic). It is on the crossing of Gt West Rd and Boston Manor Road on the south western corner.'

Local readers will be aware of the demise of the factory - it was demolished over the August bank holiday weekend in 1980 before paperwork to protect the facade could be completed.

As the Twentieth Century Society website notes 'Every conservation society needs a martyr – a demolition so outrageous and shocking that the press and public realise the need for the society ... For the Twentieth Century Society ... the Firestone Factory became its martyr in 1980.'