Morris Street Working Men's Club, 20-22 Morris Street, Rodbourne
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Morris Street Working Men's Club, 20-22 Morris Street, Rodbourne
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 12 Dec 2008
This part of Swindon developed in the late 19th century, fuelled by the expansion of the nearby railway works. Strangely very few public houses were opened in this area, but to compensate there were a lot of working men's clubs, of which this is a surviving example. Judging by the appearance of the building and its alignment with the adjoining properties, the building the club occupies looks a lot older than the rest of the street. Possibly it was a former farmhouse. If so, it would have been starting a tradition still followed today. The Council's new housing estates in the west and north of the town are each allocated a site for a public house, and some of these have been former farmhouses now turned into pubs.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.565149
Longitude
-1.802017