A strange birthday present
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A strange birthday present
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 9 Dec 2017
This large plastic Number One was on the pavement outside a house in Abbott Road, Armley. On it are several handwritten messages along the lines of "Happy first birthday, Virgin Trains". The company was started in 1997 so this dates the artefact to 1998: what was it doing here nearly twenty years later?
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Image Location
Latitude
53.797428
Longitude
-1.57928