IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Belvedere Street, WORKINGTON, CA14 2NE
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Belvedere Street, CA14 2NE by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (63 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Terraced house and corner shopfront, Workington
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 28 Jun 2013
0.04 miles
2
Hope, War Memorial
Memorial to those who gave their lives in World Wars 1 and 2 and all wars since then.
Image: © ken canham
Taken: 14 Nov 2021
0.05 miles
3
Workington Library
On the corner of Oxford Street (left) and Vulcans Lane. The building was previously occupied by the Beehive Co-operative department store, which closed around the early 1970s.
The dome seen further down the road belongs to Image
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 28 Aug 2010
0.05 miles
5
Statue and garden, Oxford Street
The statue was erected to mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002. First impression - the face looks like a cross between a lion and a mandrill - was not far off. The work by sculptor Shawn Williamson is called 'Mandilion', and described as a 'lion head imbued with the characteristics of man', carved in medieval style (information from http://www.artworkersguild.org/members/shawn_williamson/ ).
Signs at the back of the garden record a number of wins in the Cumbria in Bloom competition, and that Workington is twinned with Selm (Germany) and Val de Reuil (France).
On the right, in Vulcans Lane, is the back entrance to Image .
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 28 Aug 2010
0.06 miles
6
"The Henry Bessemer" public house, Workington
Former cinema - Oxford Picture Theatre - converted into a public house under the management of J.D. Wetherspoon, specialists in taking over large redundant buildings with large internal spaces, such as entertainment buildings and post offices. The building dates from 1920, and more can be found at this http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/41285
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 28 Jun 2013
0.07 miles
7
Wetherspoons pub, Workington
A Wetherspoon pub in the centre of Workington. As with a large number of Wetherspoon premises this pub is in a building converted from a former use. This one still maintains the words "Oxford Picture House" inscribed in the stone work on the front of the building.
Image: © Graham Robson
Taken: 6 Nov 2014
0.08 miles
8
Workington Bus Station, Murray Road
The back of the building is at an angle, with another entrance on Vulcans Lane. This is said to be the first (1926) purpose-built covered bus station in Britain http://wtht.co.uk/workington-buses/ .
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 28 Aug 2010
0.08 miles
9
Murray Road entrance to Workington Bus Station
The Murray Road Entrance to Workington Bus Station. The station was the first purpose built covered bus station in the UK and opened in 1926. Today it is owned by Stagecoach, the operator of the majority of commercial services in Cumbria.
Image: © Graham Robson
Taken: 6 Nov 2012
0.08 miles
10
Workington Bus Station (1926)
According to the blue plaque attached to the building Workington Bus Station "was the first purpose-built covered bus station in Great Britain", opening for business on 19th March 1926.
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 28 Jun 2013
0.09 miles