Livery Street looking northeast

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Livery Street looking northeast by Robin Stott as part of the Geograph project.

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Livery Street looking northeast

Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 6 Mar 2012

Livery Street sounds old but is a recent creation, a street of shops and cafés in the former backland of the Regent Hotel, Regent Street east and Regent Grove. This entry between the 1884 Town Hall, right, and the 1809 Regent Hotel, now a Travelodge, extreme left, originally led to the stables and coach houses to the rear of the hotel, hence the livery label. It evolved into a car park and garage. The shops have been bundled as Regent Court in an attempt to make them seem like somewhere. Livery Street is a handy traffic-free short cut between the Parade and Regent Street but, sadly, is often in shadow, lacks any character and feels dead.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.289597
Longitude
-1.534471