Southfield Road: Robert Shaw Playing Field entrance

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Southfield Road: Robert Shaw Playing Field entrance

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 Aug 2010

This council estate was planned in the late 1930s, at the same time as Western Boulevard. My school friend Tim Dale lived in the house in the centre. We listened to a lot of early sixties music in the back bedroom "between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP".

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Image Location

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52.959438
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-1.185514