Strouden: Homebase store in the old bus sheds
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Strouden: Homebase store in the old bus sheds
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 28 Jul 2015
This site, now the Castlemore Retail Park, is the site of the old Yellow Buses depot. The old bus sheds, a listed building, were retained and converted to the anchor Homebase store in the picture. Other modern units continue around the central car park, out of picture to the right. The significance of the bus shed, built in 1951, was that it was the widest single-span roof in Britain of its type, using reinforced concrete thin shell, formed of the nine curved vaults which are evident in the picture.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.749641
Longitude
-1.846295