Duke Street, looking northwest, Cheltenham
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Duke Street, looking northwest, Cheltenham
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 6 Mar 2011
Duke Street is one of the older streets of Cheltenham, having been built in stages by different builders and in different styles. Most date from the 1820's, but there are three or four earlier houses, and some from the 1830's and later. In its early years, it was very much a place where people who were poorly off lived. It would have been a fairly rough area, with three public houses in this street alone, to cater for the residents. The last of these did not close until 1984. Today the street, like most similar streets in central Cheltenham, has been "gentrified". There are unlikely to be any agricultural labourers or laundry women living here today. The houses look very attractive, with their many shades of mainly pastel colours. Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.898059
Longitude
-2.063899