Oak Road, Melton Mowbray
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Oak Road, Melton Mowbray by Kate Jewell as part of the Geograph project.
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Oak Road, Melton Mowbray
Image: © Kate Jewell Taken: 6 Apr 2014
Built in the 1930s these houses had beautiful curved glass panes at the edges of the bays, (see the curve of the window surround). As PVC replacement windows became the fashion during the 1970s and 1980s these were replaced by flat panes of glass. Thus the houses in three streets here have lost their original character. See Image for example of similar houses in London that have been saved from this fate.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.763602
Longitude
-0.882247