2010

SU1584 : Fleming Way and The Parade, Swindon

taken 14 years ago, near to Swindon, England

Fleming Way and The Parade, Swindon
Fleming Way and The Parade, Swindon
Fleming Way is in the foreground. It was once the route of the Wilts and Berks Canal that once ran for 52 miles (84 kilometres) between the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington, north-east of Trowbridge, to the Thames Navigation at Abingdon. It was never an unqualified success and was operational along its whole length from 1810 to about 1900 before it was abandoned.

The building at the left is a branch of the well-known department store Debenhams, built here in the 1960s under the Bon Marche trading name. Virtually everything in this image dates from the 1960s with the exception of the David Murray John tower visible at the extreme right which was built in the 1970s and the plastic tent-like structure. The bus is also rather more modern dating probably from 2002.

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Category: Street scene
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Fleming Way [37] · Parade [17] · Branch [11] · Wilts Berks Canal [10] ·
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SU1584, 547 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Brian Robert Marshall   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 5 July, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 6 July, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 1508 8487 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:33.7506N 1:47.0311W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 1509 8491
View Direction
South-southwest (about 202 degrees)
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