Castle Road and surroundings
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Castle Road and surroundings by Lairich Rig as part of the Geograph project.
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Castle Road and surroundings
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 26 Mar 2017
This wide-angle view is intended to show developments around Castle Road. To its west (left) are the grounds of Image Behind the stadium is the recent housing that makes up the Castle Quay development: Image The other side (east) of the road was formerly the site of the Blackburn Aircraft Factory, later used by Allied Distillers: Image The factories shown there were later demolished. By the time the present picture was taken, a new housing development was beginning on that site: Image (see http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/15948 for related pictures). Further to the right is Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.937621
Longitude
-4.560398