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Crown Way shopping centre, Lillington
Bustling at lunchtime on a weekday.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 22 Oct 2009
0.03 miles
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Crown Way shops, Lillington
The village of Lillington developed into a suburb of Leamington Spa from the 1930s onwards, with a large estate of council housing being built here in the 1950s. The Crown Way shopping centre opened in 1957 and remains the main retail area of Lillington, though it now has competition from a nearby small supermarket. http://lillingtonhistory.org/web2_documents/newsletters/2015springNewsletter.pdf
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 27 Oct 2012
0.04 miles
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Crown Way shops, Lillington, seen from across Crown Way
This is the upper part of the shopping precinct. Facing onto Crown Way, behind and to the left of the 'Balti Chef', is the post office (which once included the premises that are now 'Balti Chef'). Beyond and to the left of the post office is the Coral betting shop, which was once a branch of Barclays Bank. The shops, which have flats over them, first opened in 1957 as part of a newly-built estate of council housing.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 27 Oct 2012
0.05 miles
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Crown Way shops, Lillington, looking towards Crown Way
This is the upper part of the shopping precinct, to the north-west, looking south-west towards the three-storey blocks of flats on the other side of Crown Way. The shopping centre opened in 1957.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 27 Oct 2012
0.05 miles
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Valley Road
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 20 Jul 2019
0.06 miles
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Valley Road Lillington
This roundabout is on Valley road at the junction with Crown Way and Mason Avenue. The view is south west along Valley Rd. There is a cctv camera in the middle of the roundabout.
Image: © Nigel Mykura
Taken: 15 Apr 2012
0.06 miles
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Lillington Community Centre
In Mason Avenue.
Image: © Ian Rob
Taken: 9 Apr 2011
0.07 miles
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Lillington Library, Valley Road
One of Warwickshire's excellent public libraries.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 22 Oct 2009
0.07 miles
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Crown Way flats and greenspace
Seen from the rear of Crown Way, left. Adjacent to Lillington Primary School, right.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 22 Oct 2009
0.07 miles
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Lillington Library
This branch library in Lillington, a suburb of Leamington Spa, was built in 1959-60 to designs by Henry Fedeski, who also designed the Catholic church of Our Lady, which stands alongside it on Valley Road. Over the library are two flats, one intended for the librarian, who lived there with his family. The building superseded a library in the former police station on Cubbington Road, which was too small for the fast-growing suburb.
Library and church are now listed buildings. The listing for the library can be found at the Historic England site https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1420766?section=official-list-entry . It commends the building's 'lively, colourful Festival of Britain style'.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 10 Sep 2023
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