A site for sore eyes ? and other nauseous complaints
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A site for sore eyes ? and other nauseous complaints
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 23 Sep 2007
This is the building site of the old Wilkins Bakery, which had lain derelict for years and has recently been demolished to make way for homes. The large pile of resultant rubble has recently been roughly halved in size (lengthways) to what you see in this image. Local residents complained of ill-health as a result of this huge eyesore which had been bigger than their houses. The local paper, the Bournemouth Echo, reported it here: http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/search/display.var.1537371.0.rubble_and_strife.php
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Image Location
Latitude
50.732388
Longitude
-1.85627