The Union Tavern, Westbourne Park, next to the Grand Union canal, 32-34 Great Western Road, Maida Vale, London, England, UK, W9 3NX

. This dated editorial view of 32-34 Great Western Road, Maida Vale, London, England, UK, W9 3NX in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The scene records The Union Tavern, Westbourne Park, next to the Grand Union canal, 32-34 Great Western Road, Maida Vale, London, England, UK, W9 3NX. The broader subject matter reaches into changing streetscape, local bus network, contemporary social history, local mobility, local history, lock flight, inland navigation, community identity, blue-green corridor, working waterway, historical comparison, roadside transit, archival record, and navigation engineering. The wider contemporary story combines flood resilience, volunteering and the cost of keeping ageing locks and canal structures operational. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with accessibility, passenger information and the importance of buses for access to work, education and healthcare. For later comparison, the photograph preserves lettering, decoration and surface detail at 32-34 Great Western Road, Maida Vale, London, England, UK, W9 3NX, details that may look very different after new ownership. The subject also sits alongside place identity, passenger transport, street-side transport, before-and-after reference, transport accessibility, canal heritage, documentary photography, and towpath landscape. The recorded references to Grand, canal, 32-34, Maida, and Western preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. A later view of 32-34 Great Western Road, Maida Vale, London, England, UK, W9 3NX may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The image fixes evidence of earlier appearance before later change alters the scene. It also preserves period character as a date-specific reference.