High Street and the Assembly Rooms
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High Street and the Assembly Rooms
Image: © Hugh Craddock Taken: 17 Apr 2011
High Street, looking east from the junction with South Street and West Street. On the right is the Assembly Rooms, built in the late C17 when Epsom was a thriving spa, subsequently used as shops, and in the late C20, as the headquarters of the National Counties building society. Now a JD Wetherspoon pub, following restoration. This part of the High Street was formerly two-way, with the clock tower isolated in the middle. Compare with this Francis Frith photo dating from 1897: http://www.francisfrith.com/epsom/photos/high-street-1897_39015/ and http://www.geograph.org.uk/stuff/frith.php?id=2361441 : the Assembly Rooms feature in both, as do one or two buildings on the right of the High Street, and the large white fronted building (just in front of the bus) on the left (partially obscured by a tree in 1897).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.333041
Longitude
-0.268685