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Deerpark Drive, WARWICK, CV34 5ED

These houses, along with those in Deerpark Drive, Wedgnock Green and Oken Road, appear on an OS map of 1925. The estate would be the first 20th-century residential development in the Cape area. Deerpark Drive curves off immediately past the trees. To the right of the camera are some lock-up garages.

Long shadows accompany a lockdown walk. St Mary's church tower is on the skyline.

Runs from Newburgh Crescent to join the long footpath on the north side of the railway, between Coventry Road and Cape Road.

This is on the north side of the bridge, right, that takes Cape Road over the railway. The cabinet can only be for street lighting. The arrow on the sign is pointing the wrong way. Perhaps it should have been erected on the opposite side of the road, behind the camera. Some premises in Cattell Road are seen in Image Two slim cast-iron bollards guard the top of a steep flight of 26 steps down to a footpath by the railway. Distant trees are in Priory Park.

This greenspace was once part of the grounds of Priory House until they were severed by the Great Western Railway. The pools have long been filled in but some slender alder trees remain. Council flats in Lyttleton Road to the north. Allotments out of shot left. St Mary's primary school out of shot, right. Railway behind the viewpoint.

This council housing first appears in outline on a map of 1938. Looking north towards Wedgnock Green.

Before the pandemic most Chiltern diesel multiple unit services were of three coaches. To make some allowance for social distancing on board, most trains have been extended to four coaches by breaking up train sets and reforming them; a few two-coach trains are running. The view is from the Cape Road bridge. In the background are Cattell Road businesses, Spring Pool housing, and Priory Park.

This train came through in mid-afternoon on a Thursday. At its head were 6-7 wagons carrying one full-size container and 11-12 'small' boxes. Following them were 19 empty wagons, some of them looking brand new, representing capacity for 19 full-size containers. Two or three weeks later, from observation, trains are carrying more boxes in each direction. Christmas imports are on the move: perhaps southbound trains are hauling mostly empties.

While I was waiting to photograph a container freight train, the sun came out revealing a ghost sign on the rusting iron plates of the parapet. It reads: HORSEHAY Co LTD MAKERS SHROPSHIRE Horsehay Ironworks (1755-1984) was established north of Coalbrookdale by Abraham Darby II. By 1790 it was operating one of the first rolling mills. Horsehay became famous for constructing iron bridges and cranes http://www.dawleyheritage.co.uk/timeline/56/horsehay-ironworks-opened Brunel's Oxford to Birmingham Railway extension opened in 1852. There's every reason to believe that this is an original bridge. There is a narrow footway on each side, presumably added later, obscuring the lower part of 'Shropshire'.