Looking down St James's Street, and Byron's house
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Looking down St James's Street, and Byron's house
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 9 Sep 2010
St James's Street runs from the old General Hospital site (behind the camera) to Beastmarket Hill at the western end of the Market Square. The poet Byron stayed in the fine three-storey eighteenth century house at the top of St James's Street whilst being treated at the General Hospital (which dates from 1784, though the remaining buildings are 19th century). See Image . The nasty out-of-scale thing dominating the skyline is one of the featureless tower blocks on Maid Marian Way which 1950s planners thought such a good idea.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.951853
Longitude
-1.154846