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Crown Walk, UXBRIDGE, UB8 1GX

Looking across Cross Street and down Grainges yard. The entrance of Grainges car park and the delivery entrance for The Pavilions shopping Mall.

Main road close Uxbridge town centre.

The Fig Tree pub on the right used to be the Police Station. Uxbridge was an important market town and coaching stop in the past, with many fine old buildings. Unfortunately it suffered in the 1960s from redevelopment which can best be described as vandalism and most of the old buildings have disappeared, with the town consequently losing its character. Windsor Street is one of the few remaining old parts of the town. The scene is marred by the office building in the distance, which is typical of modern Uxbridge.

The two cream buildings are 2,700 metres from camera. Photograph taken from Cycle Route 61.

Prominent in the photograph is The Fig Tree public house, a Greene King outlet. This was originally built as the town's police station, but was later converted to a public house with the inevitable name of The Old Bill. The transformation to The Fig Tree is recent, from around the beginning of 2006. Apparently and allegedly the new name had to fit to the number of letters of the old name on the outside of the building to circumvent certain planning regulations! Barnard's Bookshop is to the right.

Windsor Street is one of the few surviving thoroughfares in the centre of Uxbridge to have retained some of its historic buildings. Barnard's University Bookshop is prominent here. The north tower of Image is just visible on the right.

One of a few large buildings to survive the modernization of Uxbridge's town centre. Mainly due to luck, I think. Situated on the side of the busy A4020 Oxford Road.

Dating from 1546, this is reputed to be the oldest pub in Uxbridge, a town which had a large number of coaching inns, being on the route from London to Oxford.

A multi-storey car park at The Pavilions shopping mall, viewed from the pedestrian footbridge over the A4020 Oxford Road.

St. Margaret's Old Burial Ground, unused for the past 150 years. Most head stones have now gone. The site is now the home for Uxbridge's War Memorial [since 1972]. The Old Post Office is to the rear. Capital Court to the left. Just visible, are cars parked in Windsor Street. This small piece of greenery is surrounded by a four lane, one way road system.