Earsldon Roundabout

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Earsldon Roundabout by Ian Capper as part of the Geograph project.

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Earsldon Roundabout

Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 25 Sep 2021

The meeting point of Albany Road (in the left background), Earsldon Street and Earlsdon Avenues North and South. In the background is Earlsdon Methodist Church (see Image). The "Bennis the Menace" banner on the roundabout is part of a local fundraising campaign "Pass the Smile for Ben" raising money for childhood cancer. The clock was by Smiths of Derby and installed in 1994 following fundraising by local residents. It replaced a previous one with three faces dating from 1944, paid for ribbon manufacturer A P Pridmore, which had been removed in 1980, and itself had replaced an earlier one, also paid for by Mr Pridmore, dating from 1929 which he had provided in memory of his son who had died at Ypres in 1917. In its later years the 1944 clock later was nicknamed the 3 faced liar due to its showing different times on each face.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.399864
Longitude
-1.530211