Old house on corner of Portsmouth Road and Sandy Lane, St. Catherine's, Guildford
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Old house on corner of Portsmouth Road and Sandy Lane, St. Catherine's, Guildford
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 10 Mar 2011
Now a private house, for many years in the Victorian era, and the early years of the 20th century, part of this building was used as a coffee house. These were places where you could sit and drink coffee and chat with friends. When it was in use as a coffee house, the entrance to this, was where the downstairs window now is, on the left fronting Portsmouth Street. It must have been a risky business entering and leaving the building, as there is hardly any pavement on the Portsmouth Road frontage.
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Image Location
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51.225364
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