page_title: Park Royal
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Park Royal / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Guinness Brewery sidings at Park Royal on 14th July 2016. The sidings are now used to supply aggregate material to Lagarde Tarmac.
context_page_description: Park Royal is an area in West London, England, partly in the London Borough of Brent and partly the London Borough of Ealing.
  It is the site of the largest business park in London, but despite intensive existing use, the area is, together with adjacent Old Oak Common, intended to become the UK's largest regeneration scheme. This arises from the area’s relatively central location and also the strong and improving transport links which will include, HS2 and the Elizabeth Line. The scale of redevelopment has led to the Park Royal and Old Oak area being described as a potential "Canary Wharf of West London".
  Park Royal was the site of two of the early homes of Queens Park Rangers Football Club.
context_section_description: The name Park Royal derives from the short-lived showgrounds opened in 1903 by the Royal Agricultural Society as a permanent exhibition site for the society's annual show. After only three years the society sold the site, and returned to a touring format for its shows. With its road, rail and canal links, Park Royal was subsequently developed for industrial use, mainly during the 1930s.
  For many years it was a centre of engineering, with firms including Park Royal Vehicles, GKN and Landis and Gyr.
  Queens Park Rangers F.C. played on two grounds in Park Royal. The first was the Horse Ring, later the site of the Guinness brewery, which had a capacity of 40,000. When the Royal Agricultural Society sold the grounds in 1907, QPR moved to the Park Royal Ground, 400 yards (370 m) south, an almost exact replica of Ayresome Park, with a capacity of 60,000. The club was forced to move out in February 1915 as the ground was taken over by the Army.
  On 12 December 1908, the first ever rugby league test match between Great Britain and Australia took place at the Park Royal Ground in front of 2,000 fans. The match ended in a 22-all draw and was played as part of the first ever Kangaroo Tour.
  The Guinness Sports Club hosted some of the field hockey events for the 1948 Summer Olympics.
caption: Sidings at the former Guinness Brewery
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