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West Bridgford: flowery Central Avenue
Older Nottinghamians may remember that Iceland, on the left, was originally Fine Fare, one of Nottingham's first self-service stores. When I was young Specsavers was occupied by Ethel Llewellyn, a genteel dress shop. The concrete bus shelters of those times are long gone, like West Bridgford UDC's double-deck buses.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 7 Sep 2017
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West Bridgford: a summer evening in Central Avenue
A prosperous-looking mixture of shops, banks and restaurants. Placards on the lamp standards advertise the recently-opened Library and Children's Centre.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 13 Jun 2013
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West Bridgford: Central Avenue shops
The bus service into Nottingham City centre is frequent and efficient. Union flags have been strung from the railings, ahead of the Platinum Jubilee, when Central Avenue will be closed.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 19 May 2022
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West Bridgford: (after) dinner for one
The busy Felicini restaurant and bar. My grandmother, who lived in Bridgford from the 1880s to the 1960s, would have been surprised to find a restaurant of any kind, let alone an Italian one, in Central Avenue. (Felicini - which in June 2013 became Mud Crab, with American and Australian dishes - is the square grey building shown on the left-hand side of the road in
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Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 29 Apr 2013
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Central Avenue on a Test Match morning
The coffee bars of Central Avenue were doing a good trade in the hours before the start of play in the First Test of the England-India series.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 9 Jul 2014
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Saturday night out in Central Avenue
Petunias and pavement café-bars in West Bridgford on a warm August evening.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 13 Aug 2016
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West Bridgford: Covid queuing outside Birds
An orderly queue of Bridgfordians had formed outside the Central Avenue branch of Birds, a splendid East Midlands institution. Reassuringly, sausage rolls and iced buns appeared more popular than the maths and English tuition offered next door....
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 6 Jul 2021
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West Bridgford: Tudor Square and Central Avenue
Looking across the square to the Avenue on a bright summer morning.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 3 Jul 2019
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Central Avenue on Sunday evening
Seven o'clock on a July evening, with plenty of customers in the restaurants and pavement cafés.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 17 Jul 2016
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The junction of Rectory Road and Bridgford Road in West Bridgford
Part of the centre of West Bridgford.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 18 Jul 2021
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