Queens Road Wimbledon SW19

[NormanE]

Please can anyone help me find the original purpose of the long brick a stone building in Queens Road Wimbledon (SW19)?
 In the middle of its length there is an archway through, with what looks like accommodation above it. The long building is now turned into many flats with Dormer windows and the long strip windows along the length of the roof retained.
NormanE

[ShaunJ]

See photo on page 29 of this PDF - is that it? http://www.merton.gov.uk/living/designandconservation/conservation_areas/conservation_areas_listed_from_e-m/sth_pk_gdns_ca_part_2-2.pdf

Also see Bradshaw Close on Google Streetview

[NormanE]

ShaunJ
Thanks for the information,that's first class help. Any idea what the depot was for?
Norman

[ShaunJ]

On the old OS maps it is just marked as a corporation depot

[ShaunJ]

Nice old picture here http://photoarchive.merton.gov.uk/collections/streets/27957#prettyPhoto/0/

[ShaunJ]

Quote "I remember this being the council rubbish depot. Before that it was the site of the borough's own power station"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sarflondondunc/2056362037/in/set-72157594211163546

[NormanE]

ShaunJ
Shaun I think we are there, thanks for your help.
I was there yesterday visiting family and was intrigued by the building and its possible history.
The current view that this was an old Tram Depot didn't seem right to me but now I know the true story.
Again thanks for all your help
Norman

[Jacqueline Cleverley]

Norman - I lived opposite the depot for 20 years. It contained the council vehicles such as dustcarts which drove under the archway until the taller ones arrived and the went in near Trinity Rd end. A family
lived each side of the archway and one had a little boy and younger twins. The older boy went on the rail tracks and had burns on his arms which left scars. J Cleverley