The Racecourse
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The Racecourse
Image: © Burgess Von Thunen Taken: 9 Aug 2011
A hilly bit in the middle of the mostly flat Racecourse. In the 1930s and 1940s this area was known as 'Happy Valley'. At one time it contained a children's playground. It was formed by the bed of a stream that ran off the racecourse, down under St Georges Avenue, past the end of Freehold Street and down into the Walbeck. The bed was filled in and raised by unemployed workers (demobilised soldiers) in 1920, 1921 after WW1.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.248165
Longitude
-0.889678