London Road
Introduction
The photograph on this page of London Road by Ian Capper as part of the Geograph project.
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London Road
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 4 May 2009
The first building on the right forms part of the Red Cross Inn (see Image). The remaining buildings were built around 1900, to replace some earlier ones which had partly collapsed in 1860 into a system of caves that riddle this area (for example see Image). To ensure that they were sound, they were built on girders. In the 1970s/80s one of the premises was occupied by a wine bar called "On the Rocks", with a seating area in one of the caves below. In 1987, London Road was closed while work proceeded to stabilise part of the cave system by filling them with sand and concrete.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.23836
Longitude
-0.209753