Rockwell, Thorpe Edge
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Rockwell, Thorpe Edge
Image: © Derek Parkinson Taken: 5 Apr 2007
Rockwell Lane on Thorpe Edge, Bradford has seen many changes over the last 150 years. It is marked on Victorian maps as a route through farmland and on the 1940's Ordnance Survey map it is crossed by a railway line. Over the last fifty years a council estate has come and mostly gone with York House (right side of picture) still remaining. Rockwell Medical Centre, in the middle distance, is occupied by Dr N. B. Winn & Partners. Dr Winn is in the sports car! This view will soon alter as new houses are being built, hence the construction lorry in the background.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.828587
Longitude
-1.723757