A closer look at houses in Ramsbury Avenue, Penhill, Swindon
Introduction
The photograph on this page of A closer look at houses in Ramsbury Avenue, Penhill, Swindon by Brian Robert Marshall as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 3 Oct 2008
Using the zoom feature of my camera reveals little signs of these modern times. Satellite TV dishes are everywhere now beaming the dirty digger's output into homes the world over. The deployment of a CCTV camera on a modest terraced house tells us much about the fear of crime nowadays. Neither feature was in anyone's mind when the estate was developed over 50 years ago.