Former Garden Centre Entrance
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Former Garden Centre Entrance
Image: © David Anstiss Taken: 13 Dec 2008
It started out life in the '70s as Norton Ash Garden Centre, a small family owned business with just the one big greenhouse, and a bit of outdoor space. It expanded through the '80s and '90s with numerous extensions, a restaurant and pet centre were added, and a lot more outdoor space was utilised. It was brought out by Country Gardens in the 1990s, it also had a small miniature railway, running on weekends for children, by volunteers. Very popular and successful. Then became Wyvale (who created the new road entrance in photo), but did not do anything about the ageing greenhouse and related buildings, ran it for the last few years of its life until it closed in January 2007. Now empty and desolate, and the entrance has become a lorry park for over-night stays.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.320593
Longitude
0.827945