Five shops with flats above, formerly Victoria Villas, 8-16 Dunstable Road, Luton
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Five shops with flats above, formerly Victoria Villas, 8-16 Dunstable Road, Luton
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 24 Feb 2017
The older 3-storey block in the centre of the photo is named rather oddly Victoria Villas on a 1:500 map of 1880. It appears to have always been so, and has not changed since apart from the insertion of shops, the nearest of which is on the corner of Cardigan Street. There were a further five properties immediately to the northwest named Brighton Terrace, nos 12-26, houses with long rear extensions. They appear to have been replaced by 20th-century development perhaps as a result of the widening and re-alignment of Dunstable Road. The view is from the pedestrian crossing at Inkerman Street and Cardiff Road.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.880401
Longitude
-0.422374