Contrasting Housing Styles, Wilbury Gardens
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Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 2 Dec 2006
Wilbury Gardens was laid out between 1894-1901 and the architecture retains a late Victorian massiveness. Somewhere in time a gap has appeared and has been filled in the last 30 years by a modern box home which seems dwarfed by the imposing size of its neighbours.