Shirelake Close
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Shirelake Close by Bill Nicholls as part of the Geograph project.
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Shirelake Close
Image: © Bill Nicholls Taken: 8 Jul 2009
This area was just a wasteland when I first came to work in Oxford back in 1972. Soon after they started to build a hotel which would have been called the Churchill Hotel. Unfortunately after getting some of the concrete piles done and the ground floor started the company went bust and work stopped. For years you could see the concrete pillars standing starkly alone. Eventually the whole lot was developed into what you see now.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.747023
Longitude
-1.257612