Looking down Drinkwater Gardens, Gaer, Newport
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Looking down Drinkwater Gardens, Gaer, Newport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 3 Dec 2009
The view down Drinkwater Gardens, from near a retaining wall. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1606198 For more than 50 years, until the early 21st century, dwellings along Drinkwater Gardens were prefabs (prefabricated bungalows). A total of 750 prefabs were erected in various parts of Newport to meet a severe housing shortage after the Second World War.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.573865
Longitude
-3.0158