Portland Road, South Norwood
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Portland Road, South Norwood
Image: © Philip Talmage Taken: 17 Aug 2005
This is one of the less salubrious districts of the London Borough of Croydon. Those shops that have not been converted to dwellings - by the simple expedient of boarding over their windows - tend to have steel shutters when closed. Maybe it doesn't look too awful, on a sunny day ...
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Image Location
Latitude
51.399595
Longitude
-0.067925