Diana Dors statue in West Swindon
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The photograph on this page of Diana Dors statue in West Swindon by Gordon Hatton as part of the Geograph project.
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Diana Dors statue in West Swindon
Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 23 May 2017
After driving around the featureless suburbs of Swindon, the photographer finally found this statue of one of Swindon's most famous former inhabitants outside a leisure complex. Diana was born Diana Mary Fluck in 1931 in Old Town and lived much of her early years in the Hythe Road and Marlborough Road areas. She did have a colourful reputation as a teenager in and around the Locarno Ballroom once housed within the now derelict Corn Exchange building in the Square in Old Town, but in later life became a respected and talented actress dying at the early age of 52. It seems a pity that this statue is not standing in Old Town's Square outside a [one day] refurbished Corn Exchange.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.56043
Longitude
-1.831753