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Minorca Road, WEYBRIDGE, KT13 8DU

Queen's Parade was built as a row of shops, with residential accommodation above, on Church Street, in 1899 in the grounds of the demolished Minorca House, hence the name of the street on the left, Minorca Road. There is a photograph of the block in the Frith collection, taken in 1903 shortly after it was completed, here http://www.francisfrith.com/weybridge/photos/church-street-1903_49903/ In 1920 the near corner unit was converted to use as a cinema, the Weybridge Kinema Theatre, with the auditorium just visible on the left down Minorca Street. This later became the County Cinema in the 1930s until its closure in the 1950s. A more distant shot in the Frith collection, dating from around 1955, shows the building as the County Cinema here http://www.francisfrith.com/weybridge/photos/church-street-c1955_w74037/ The old cinema was then purchased by Walton and Weybridge Urban District Council (W&WUDC) and converted for use as a community centre known as the Weybridge Hall. Local reports suggest that in 2011 it was under threat of closure by the successors to W&WUDC, Elmbridge Borough Council, but local support has kept it open. Colin's Image shows the building in the opposite direction in 2008. Church Street in the foreground is the A317.

The Old Rectory in the main shopping area along the A3050. This is now a commercial building.

This brick building with its "historic interest" plaque sits at the west end of Church Street and is now occupied by "Meadows Fraser, Solicitors". http://www.weybridge.org.uk/

Functional agglomeration? A bridal wear shop on Weybridge Church Street is opposite the St James parish churchyard. http://www.weybridge.org.uk/

The gravestone in the foreground has an elaborate design but unfortunately the inscription was illegible. In the background is a business called Surrey Brides.

The metal plaque on the top reads "THE DIAL STONE FROM THE COLUMN FORMERLY STANDING IN SEVEN DIALS LONDON. THE COLUMN WAS RE-ERECTED ON MONUMENT GREEN IN 1822 AS A MEMORIAL TO THE DUCHESS OF YORK".

Looking north across the graveyard towards Church Street. The tower buttress on the right has a bench mark behind the shrubbery Image

Almost all the gravestones in this part of the churchyard are partially or completely illegible. St James's church itself dates from 1848 when it replaced an earlier church.