Allesley Old Road
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Allesley Old Road
Image: © E Gammie Taken: 20 Dec 2013
The fenced area beyond the large copper beech on the left was previously a petrol station, demolished some years ago and still undeveloped. The buildings on the left are at the northern edge of the 19th century Chapelfields bounded by Craven Street, Mount Street and Allesley Old Road which housed watchmakers' premises. The current Chapelfields encompasses a larger area. Allesley Old Road itself once formed part of an old coach road between London and Holyhead when it was the turnpike road to Birmingham, before being bypassed by the construction of Holyhead Road as part of Telford's 1830s improvements to the route. A tram route ran along the road as far as Mount Street between 1905 and 1932, by which time it fell well short of serving the extended area of housing constructed further along the road during the 1920s and was replaced by a bus service. In 1981: Image]
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Image Location
Latitude
52.408085
Longitude
-1.533519