Guildford Avenue shops & pharmacy & mini-roundabout, Lawn

Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 22 Aug 2008

This parade of shops (with flats over) is in Guildford Avenue on the Lawn Estate and provides the only shops on the estate. Currently there is a convenience store/newsagent (in premises which years ago was a small Gateway Supermarket), an off-licence, a hairdressers and a vet's surgery. The pharmacy was tacked on 2 or 3 years ago, following the opening of a GP surgery on the opposite side of the road. In the foreground can be seen one of Swindon's many little mini-roundabouts at the junction of Guildford Avenue & Windsor Road. At one point the Council pulled out almost every set of traffic lights in the town but in recent years traffic lights have come back with a vengeance but many mini-roundabouts remain as a trap for the unwary. This one was installed in an attempt to slow down speeding traffic in Windsor Road but much of the road remains a race track at some times of the day (& night).

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