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Appealing to future buyers
The new houses going up on Airport Road have long hoardings. In one particular spot, the boards are covered with contributions from local primary schoolchildren. Quite what the developers expect from the coloured in drawings in open to speculation. Maybe they will be customers of the next generations.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 12 May 2022
0.07 miles
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A walk to work
The Airport Road is now much changed as the large high-rise homes are being built.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 12 May 2022
0.12 miles
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Bus Stop and Houses on Bamfield
This is the Alverstoke bus stop on Bamfield next to the small residential cul de sac known as Alverstoke
Image: © Nigel Mykura
Taken: 25 Dec 2021
0.13 miles
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A new pond for the new business park
The Filwood Green Business Park is a pretty recent addition to the area. Previously this was the northern end of Whitchurch Airport, which saw vital service in WWII before being closed in the late 1950s. There is a brook that runs across the Airport Road but this pond is part of the latest landscaping; the buildings occupy the site of one of the hangars.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 12 May 2022
0.16 miles
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Bo Klok on the Brook
A long strip of grassland runs beside the brook through this part of Knowle, also marking what became the Airport Road. Having missed the large housing development after WWI, the land has finally been allotted housing development of its own. The developers are a partnership between Skanska and IKEA, and are building a large number of high-density homes for various sorts of owners.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 12 May 2022
0.16 miles
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Investing in the community
The new homes are being snapped up, despite the amounts of money and lack of car parking. Still, the environment is being acknowledged in the build.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 12 May 2022
0.19 miles
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Front of Houses on Swainswick
There is no road in front of these houses whose rear backs on to Swainswick. They face a small green area that leads from Bamfield through to Hengrove Park whcich can be seen in the distance.
Image: © Nigel Mykura
Taken: 25 Dec 2021
0.22 miles
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Snow on the Building Site
This large construction site is just north of the A4174 Hengrove Way close to its junction with Creswicke Rd. Taken from one of the houses in Creswicke Rd backing on to the construction site which used to be playing fields.
Image: © Nigel Mykura
Taken: 1 Feb 2019
0.23 miles
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Manning Road, Knowle
A curve of new housing on the old Whitchurch Airport site.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 12 May 2022
0.24 miles
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A bit of green on the old farm
This small but open public space was Hengrove Farm, and the area here north-west from the buildings was a quarry.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 7 May 2020
0.24 miles