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Cheddar Road, SWINDON, SN25 3HE

This view is in the heart of Moredon, a municipal housing estate built in the 1950s. Cheddar Road leads away from the viewpoint to its junction with Barton Road on the left. The houses on the left are of the 'Cornish' design, one of several non-traditional building systems developed in the immediate post-war years to enable as many houses as possible to be built by local authorities in the shortest time. The design principles typically involved the use of reinforced concrete and the generic term 'PRC' for pre-cast reinforced concrete was coined to describe system-built housing. Unfortunately, the use of this material led to structural problems developing in the life of the properties and they had to be comprehensively rebuilt to enable their continued existence. The bungalows on the right are of more traditional design and construction and were built to accommodated retired people.

Moredon Primary and Nursery School and Children's Centre. Note the small figures outside the entrance.

The new Moredon NHS Medical Centre was built when surgeries at Queens Park and 33-35 Moredon Road were no longer adequate to deliver high quality primary care. A site on Moredon Road became available with the relocation of part of Hreod Parkway school, and part of the old school playing field was bought from Swindon Council. The new combined medical practice was built there and opened in September 2009. It has 10 nurse consulting/treatment rooms, 10 medical consulting rooms, a large health education room on the first floor, and a large administration area and a private chiropractic suite on the second floor. http://www.moredonmedicalcentre.nhs.uk/index.php?id=75

Moredon Community Centre and Social Club has rooms to hire for social events.

Row of shops and a Post Office, Purton Road, Moredon.

Serving beers from Arkell's, Swindon's independent brewer.

At the junction of Moredon Road (foreground) and The Street. The map shows there is a parish boundary down The Street and then off to the left, so the pub is right in the corner of the parish. Not sure which one.

Fernham Road is another road in the post-war Council estate of Moredon. Leaving it to the right is the entrance to Chilton Gardens, a sheltered housing scheme for elderly residents.