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Sheepcote Close, LEAMINGTON SPA, CV32 5YD

On the skyline are houses in Rosewood Crescent, seen from the rear. The sharp change of level results from the excavation of clay for the former Leamington Brickworks. Leamington brick was larger than today's standard brick. It was a pleasing pale orange and is seen in older buildings, mostly in Leamington.

There are not many hills of note in Leamington Spa, and this view is looking down the lower part of the steepest as the road descends from the Campion Hills. The traffic calming measures in the shadows were introduced to restrict the activities of boy-racers who used to speed down here.

An infill development on the eastern edge of Leamington Spa.

This development occupies land that for many years was used for allotments. The house design attempts to match many of the older terraces in the town. Unfortunately however the architect failed to replicate the vertical proportions of the buildings with the result that these properties look like they have been partially squashed by a giant foot!

On the eastern edge of Leamington Spa, below Campion Hill.

This Virginia creeper was rampant on the gable end of a house in Campion Terrace, Leamington Spa. It must look spectacular during summer.

Here about 30 metres higher than the town centre [1km away].

This area was initially developed after WWII with prefabs similar in style to Image These were demolished and the area redeveloped in the 1970s and 80s to the form seen in this picture.

After the First World War "servicemen returned to the town to find that, despite a government promise, there were not enough houses and many had to live in condemned slums which often accommodated more people than when first built." Housing Acts were passed to enable a housing programme to be set up … "Leamington's first council houses were built using space standards and layout which are quite generous by present-day criteria. They were used as examples in the Housing Commissioners' Design Manual and were repeated almost exactly in later manuals until after the Second World War." These are some of those first council houses on the north side of Leicester Street, completed 1921-2. The postbox ID is CV32 69. Quotes from Lyndon Cave: Royal Leamington Spa, a history: 2009.

Inter-war 'garden city' style local authority houses line the northern side of Leicester Street.