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Ridgeway Hill, Newport
Looking down Ridgeway Hill from Allt-yr-yn Avenue. The fenced-off area on the left http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1616916 is a site awaiting redevelopment after demolition of prefabs.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 12 Dec 2009
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Ridgeway Rise, Newport
Modern bungalows, viewed from Ridgeway Hill.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 12 Dec 2009
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Ridgeway Reach, Newport
Modern bungalows, viewed from Ridgeway Hill.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 12 Dec 2009
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Ridgeway and Allt-yr-yn Community Centre, Newport
Set back about 20 metres from the west side of Ridgeway Hill.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 12 Dec 2009
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Looking up Ridgeway Hill, Newport
Bungalows on the east side of Ridgeway Hill, between Ridgeway Walk and Ridgeway Reach.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 12 Dec 2009
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Ridgeway Park Road, Newport
Viewed from Ridgeway Hill. Modern bungalows along the south side, then, just visible in the distance, semi-detached 2-storey houses.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 12 Dec 2009
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Bovis Sales Information Centre, Ridgeway Close, Newport
The Sales Centre is in Bryn Llonydd, a Bovis development of 2- 3- and 4-bedroom houses on the south side of Allt-yr-yn Avenue.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 25 Jul 2010
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New housing, Ridgeway, Newport
These are some of the new houses built by Bovis in its Bryn Llonydd development on the south side of Allt-yr-yn Avenue.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 25 Jul 2010
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Possibly the only prefab remaining in Newport
A total of 750 prefabs (prefabricated bungalows) were erected in various parts of Newport to meet a severe housing shortage after the Second World War.
I had thought that all the prefabs in Newport had been demolished, but I was delighted to stumble upon this one on the edge of a new Bovis development on the south side of Allt-yr-yn Avenue. It has probably been kept for historical reasons. The accommodation looks very basic by modern standards, but compared with the unsanitary conditions in slums in the immediate postwar years of the mid to late 1940s, or the alternative of having to live in overcrowded existing housing, these prefabs must have been a highly desirable choice.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 25 Jul 2010
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Ridgeway Reach bungalows, Newport
Bungalows in a cul-de-sac viewed across Ridgeway Hill.
A Ridgeway Reach name sign is on the left.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 2 Oct 2024
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