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2024-03-19T08:23:13+00:00text/html2007-08-26T10:26:28+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden51.375088 -0.805898SU8364 : Bramblegate, Edgcumbe Park, Crowthorne, 2007
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Edgcumbe Park was started as a housing estate in the mid/late 1950s.text/html2007-08-14T22:20:45+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden53.993132 -1.540400SE3055 : Cambridge Street, Harrogate, 1981
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Cambridge Street looking towards the former West Yorkshire bus station.
The building on the right, with the Boots signs, was the Gaumont Cinema that opened in October 1920, as La Scala and changed its name to the Gaumont in 1950.
The white building on the left was Marks & Spencer, facing Woolworth's across the road; during the 1940s and '50s Woolworth's was next door to M&S on the same side of the road.
On the extreme left is a tiny part of St Peter's Church.
The Market Hall, with the clock tower, was demolished to make way for the Victoria Shopping Centre.text/html2007-08-13T22:49:04+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden51.503050 -0.114560TQ3079 : Windsor Lines at Waterloo Station, 1987
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Platforms 16 to 21 were called the Windsor Lines at London's Waterloo Station and were physically a separate part of the main station - although this was barely apparent to most passengers. From these platforms trains went to Windsor and to Reading where, again, a separate part of the main (Western Region) station accommodated these (Southern Region) trains.
In the 1990s this part of Waterloo was demolished and was replaced by the two-level Eurostar terminus.
In November, 2007, events will turn a full circle when the Eurostar terminus moves to the newly renovated St Pancras Station, leaving this part of Waterloo to revert to ordinary suburban traffic.
The clock shows the time to be quarter to two - this photograph would have been impossible a few hours earlier (and in the late afternoon) when the platforms would be invisible under the feet of the hundreds of commuters (me included).text/html2007-08-12T22:42:15+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden53.992491 -1.537204SE3055 : Harrogate Railway Station, 1985
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MetroTrain at Platform 1text/html2007-08-12T22:40:02+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden53.992492 -1.537509SE3055 : Harrogate Railway Station, 1983
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MetroTrain at Platform 1text/html2007-08-11T16:22:50+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden53.993482 -1.537803SE3055 : Harrogate Station, 1994
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British Rail HST on Platform 1text/html2007-07-27T18:11:06+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden52.414358 -1.408336SP4079 : Coombe Abbey Hotel, Binley, 2004
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text/html2007-07-27T18:09:21+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden52.414802 -1.407300SP4079 : Coombe Abbey Hotel, Binley, 2004
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text/html2007-07-27T18:07:45+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden52.415258 -1.408618SP4079 : Coombe Abbey Hotel, Binley, 2004
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text/html2007-07-27T18:05:45+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden52.414985 -1.408033SP4079 : Coombe Abbey Hotel, Binley, 2004
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text/html2007-07-21T18:26:54+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden54.065455 -1.962683SE0263 : Brook Street cottages, Hebden, 1973
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Hebden Beck - or 'Brook' - lies in the dip and is on its way from higher up where the Lead Mines were, down to the River Wharfe.text/html2007-07-21T18:19:14+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden54.064736 -1.961462SE0263 : Cottages at Hebden,1973
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The bridge is over Hebden Beck.text/html2007-07-17T12:15:43+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden53.978635 -1.533545SE3053 : 57 Leeds Road, Oatlands Mount, Harrogate, 1955
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The building just visible on the left is the Mile Post pub, then 57 Leeds Road then Padgett's greengrocery shop at 59 Leeds Road. Padgett's delivery van is parked outside. The side of the house, with shop in Mount Street, can be seen at [[488382]].
Note the H-shape TV aerial; the transmitter at Holme Moss commenced broadcasts to Yorkshire in 1951. A photograph by Rob Taylor can be seen at [[101294]].text/html2007-07-17T11:51:00+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden53.984580 -1.536834SE3054 : Demolition of Norwood College, Harrogate, 1972
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Norwood College stood on the corner of Tewit Well Ave and Leeds Rd, Harrogate. It was established as a Boy's Day and Boarding School by 'Charlie' G W G Cass in 1936 and closed on 24 March, 1972. This photograph was taken because I just happened to be visiting Harrogate and had no prior knowledge of the school's closure nor intention to demolish it! The photograph is taken from Tewit Well Ave; the flats on the left hand side are those of Royal Crescent in Leeds Rd. The car, mine, was a Triumph 1500.
Charlie Cass was born in Scarborough in 1898, flew as a fight pilot in Sopwith Dolphins in the First World War and the world-renowned physicist, Lawrence Bragg, was one of his tutors at the Victoria University of Manchester in the mid-1920s. Charlie died on 13 October,1976.
A biography of Charlie Cass with history of Clifton House School (Queen Parade then Stray Rd) and Norwood College is at http://www.aeden.plus.com/nc.htm .text/html2007-07-15T17:44:08+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15639Anthony Eden53.980954 -1.528792SE3153 : Hornbeam Railway Station, Harrogate, 1999
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The original railway line from York and Wetherby swung to the left (about where the pine tree is located at centre-right of photograph) and entered a tunnel, the 'Harrogate Tunnel', then into a cutting to arrive at Brunswick Station, the terminus for Harrogate. That station was located about where Trinity Church now stands on the edge of The Stray and it opened in 1848.
Later and after much opposition to all the smoke and noise a train would generate, the railway company obtained permission for a line to cross The Stray in a cutting to a new station in what was becoming the centre of Harrogate. Thus, the route seen in the photograph was created and the new station replaced Brunswick Station in 1862. Harrogate Tunnel was boarded up but still remains beneath Langcliffe Avenue; it was a potential Air Raid Shelter in the Second World War.