Now only the new remains
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The photograph on this page of Now only the new remains by Gerald England as part of the Geograph project.
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Now only the new remains
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 12 Sep 2017
Looking across the A6 Chapel Street towards the Beetham Tower and other new tower blocks in the background. Compare with the view in 2009 Image In the foreground then was Ye Olde Nelson, an ornate building and one of the landmarks of the city, built in 1899 on the site of a pub which had opened for business in 1805, the year Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson died as his fleet defeated the French and Spanish. It was still there in 2015 Image Developers had initially agreed to keeping at least its facade but now it has gone.
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Image Location
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