Part of Tudor Street, Abergavenny

Image: © Jeremy Bolwell Taken: 29 May 2012

In the late 1950's and early 1960's 'far-sighted' town planners decided to demolish old buildings in this area, many with medieval origins, and install instead a 'civic centre' style boulevard with government offices and civic buildings sited along it. Here we see a part of the magistrate's courts on the right (a building with plenty of empty, useless space under it) and the job centre which also housed a tax office above it, I believe (another shoe box building of tiny charm). Thanks. Grrrr. They are all retired, knighted or OBE / CBE'd or gone to the planning meeting in the sky now I expect. Mutter, mutter, grumble, grumble. At least the Sugar Loaf still looks impossibly beautiful...

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