Norah Fry Avenue
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Norah Fry Avenue by Neil Owen as part of the Geograph project.
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Norah Fry Avenue
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 21 May 2014
This benchmark is listed in the Benchmark Database: http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm57531 , being from the early years of surveying, on the lodge at the entrance to the old Union Workhouse. See Image] for the Lodge. Incidentally, Norah Fry was born in Bristol in 1871 and became the first female councillor in Somerset; she also went on to found a dedicated career in hospital care. The old workhouse used to have a separate ward for infectious diseases and the modern development of the site is marked by the road being named after her.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.187953
Longitude
-2.557846