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London Road, STAINES-UPON-THAMES, TW18 4AX

Blocked off from London Road, stopping the rats running.

This 7m tall sculpture is on the corner of London Road and Greenlands Road and in the grounds of Centurion House. The Roman shields are made of self coloured iron and remember the town’s Roman past. It was along here that Roman soldiers marched on their way from London to Silchester and evidence of the Roman road has been found at the site. The sculpture was created by Terence Clark in 1998. His signature is a tiny snail which he affixes to each of his works.

Worth comparing with Martin Addison's 1976 contribution Image which was taken from about the same spot (near the corner of Greenlands Road) and with similar orientation. Shot taken at about 2.20pm on December 29th, 2013. For the record, the price of unleaded petrol at the Shell garage was 129.9p per litre.

A view of London Road (A308) as it was in 1976. Very little has changed building wise - the white fencing around the service station forecourt appears to have gone and the associated vehicle maintenance facility appears to have changed name. The dual carriageway sign has gone though. The bus on the 216 is RF449 an AEC Regal. It is in its last few months of service from Kingston garage and was withdrawn in October 1976. It saw subsequent use in a non-psv role until being scrapped in 1985. Information from Ian's Bus Stop at http://www.countrybus.org/rf/RF4a.htm

where the A30, A308 and A3044 meet. Includes traffic lights and a road running through the middle so A30 traffic does not have to travel round the edge!

This was one side of the old bridge over the River Ash. The other side vanished when the first phase of A30 Staines By-pass was opened in 1959. In the early 1980s, the by-pass was enlarged to a dual-carriageway to cope for traffic feeding the newly opened M25. Overall result was a complicated Crooked Billet Roundabout and today the River Ash does not re-emerge for another 300m. This still displays the Coat of Arms of the former Middlesex County Council. The old council was abolished in 1965 and absorbed into London, Surrey and other surrounding areas.

This Shell Petrol Station, on London Road, Staines has been here for many years as you can see from https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1781714

A pleasant area of pre war suburban housing with not really enough room for all the cars. Quite quiet, with the top end blocked off to vehicles.

A roundabout serving five ways, bisected by the A30, whose through traffic does not use the roundabout, but encounters two sets of traffic lights.