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Gibson Road, PAIGNTON, TQ4 7AQ

This Park, off Grange Road, Goodrington, is set in amongst residential development

Most of this grid square is either open farmland (west of the ring road) or residential housing, (east of the ring road). This school serves south west Paignton.

Located just off the Brixham Road. The sign on the left states that a project to level and drain two existing football pitches at the recreation ground will be completed by spring 2004 - so it is probably done by now!

Most of the shop units here are closed, and some of the flats above are currently unoccupied. Planning permission exists for the shop units themselves to be converted into flats.

The ivy has indeed begun to take up residence on the upper floor. The only redemming feature is the splash of blackthorn blossom in the foreground across the road from the abandoned farm.

This large house sits on the Brixham Road not far from Windy Corner. Nearby is a group of derelict farm buildings, so in all likelihood it was the farmhouse. The fate of these buildings is not known, but they have been fenced off. The possibility of ribbon development has always been identified along this road. This photograph was taken from a cycle track which runs alongside the road.

The empty farmhouse and the roofless farm buildings nearby are a melancholic sight, if not a little gothic in the extent to which the ivy has climbed up the side of the house and chimney stack and even seems to have entered through the broken window. Early on a damp Sunday morning there is not much traffic, but the house sits in this sad state day after day as the traffic streams by.

The A3022 runs for a short distance in this grid square, passing White Rock and White Rock School. It is part of the bypass of Paignton. There is no access to the school from the main road

These derelict farm buildings point to a world that existed before the streams of traffic that pour in and out of Brixham all through the year, but most particularly in the summer holiday season. The Brixham Road (the Torbay Ring Road) that currently lies between the photographer and the building was no doubt once relatively quiet. However, it is hard to conceive nowadays that livestock might once have been moved along it. But these buildings attest to the fact that this farm was once a working one and quite large.