Identify the location please! Essex or Surrey perhaps?

[ScouseBoy]

Could it be NPL - National Physical Laboratories?

They were at Bush House, Teddington.

Thank you for this suggestion.  I believe that the ARL  was adjacent to the NPL  and that ARL staff shared some common services such as the canteen with the NPL. Maybe ARL used the services of the NPL  workshops ( model room) as well?

[Handypandy]

I definitely think that its one of a number of buildings within a complex. The fact that it merely says 'Laboratories' over the entrance with no indication of whose. If it was a lone building, I'm sure that it would have been signed up with the name of the organisation too.

[John915]

Good afternoon,

I would say one of the many buildings at Bushy House. It is a huge site with Bushy House itself right at the south end near the Rd.  If you look at Maddy's link and scroll down to about page 20 there is a plan of the place. Go a few more pages and you will find a series of b/w photo's. I'm on my tablet so can'take get a really good look at the moment.

I used to drive past it every week and never really took much notice of the place but the architecture is similar to a lot of the older buildings.

John915

PS, the place in your link Frank was built in the 50s

[PalmTree1]

As I live local to the NPL I thought I'd do a walk around with a pair of Mark 1 eyeballs to see what I could see.
I did not see anything that fitted exactly which does not mean it is not somewhere in there as there are many buildings all hidden one behind the other and the perimeter consists of high walls and fences often with trees and bushes blocking the view. I did see a couple of smaller older buildings that had similar brickwork and windows, though the frames are painted white, but the entrances did not match.
If you live anywhere nearby you might be interested to know that Bushy House, the original home of the NPL, is having an open house on Saturday 17th September which might open up other views of the main site or you might find someone from the NPL that recognises the scene.
HTH,
Paul

[maddys52]

That was very kind of you Paul to walk around the NPL, (I remember your great photo of Newton's apple tree  ).

I do wonder about the sign though, thinking about it, would they really need to identify a building as "Laboratories", don't know much about the place but I would have thought there were a number of laboratories on site? 

[barryd]

There are four Joseph S. Lawson names on the 1939 Index. It would help if you have a wife for Joseph and he was married prior to the war.

All possible Joseph S. Lawson men in 1939 are living at Leeds and Bedale, Yorkshire, Blackburn, Lancashire and one that could possibly be eliminated in Easington County Durham.

[rosie99]

There are four Joseph S. Lawson names on the 1939 Index. It would help if you have a wife for Joseph and he was married prior to the war.

All possible Joseph S. Lawson men in 1939 are living at Leeds and Bedale, Yorkshire, Blackburn, Lancashire and one that could possibly be eliminated in Easington County Durham.

From an earlier post
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=7597.msg22929#msg22929
Joseph Stuart LAWSON b.c.1887 in Jarrow. He was my grandfather. He was a soldier in WW1 and was at St Thomas' hospital in London where he met and married Kate E. KNIGHT

[groom]

I did ask in an earlier post whether he'd been found in the 1939, we do need to know as this might change the location completely.

[rosie99]

On the other post it is mentioned that they lived in Croydon.  Kate can be seen on the 1939 free index there,  by playing with the records her husband is using his middle name

Location could be Croydon area