Broom Avenue
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Broom Avenue by Alan Walker as part of the Geograph project.
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Broom Avenue
Image: © Alan Walker Taken: 22 Jan 2007
This photograph shows Broom Avenue at its junction with Hallgate Lane, which is running across the foreground of the picture. To see a photograph of Hallgate Lane to the left of this picture, click here Image To see a photograph of Hallgate Lane to the right of this picture, click here Image The houses are prefabricated and were built after the Second World War to house an increase in the mining workforce. Some of these houses have been purchased by their tenants and modernised (note the ones to the left that have been externally clad). The road joining from the right, in the middle of the picture is Image In the centre of the photograph, in front of the houses facing, Broom Avenue follows an ‘S-bend' to the right and then left before it continues to its junction with Pear Tree Road and Queensway. To see a more southerly (ahead) view of Broom Avenue beyond the 'S-bend', click here Image To the left of the houses facing there is a public Image that links Broom Avenue with Crow Croft Road.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.159147
Longitude
-1.373024