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| Biggles |
Calne During The Harris Demolition - Part 4Last lot for a while will have to open another box of slides and prints and see what else Ive got with local interest---- Looking towards trotmans from where sainsburys is now 
---- Looking from Somerfields walking bridge towards where sainsburys is now 
---- Looking from Bust Stop outside Sainsburys towards Somerfields 
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| Kizzy |
Found this aerial view of Harris' before being demolished - you can see better how much of Calne it covered
http://viewfinder.english-heritag...mp;place_name=&imageUID=81293 |
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| Local lass |
harris was never on where the pippen car park is now was it?
i used to jump over the concrete bollards when i was a kid in the pippen carpark. looks odd being able to see the lansdowne from the car park. when i was younger about 16 between shifts in the pub we used to sit by the river with a drink and just chill out all afternoon it ws great there is no where to do that now :cry: |
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| Clunk |
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| rosco |
Does the ex-Harris factory explain why the Pippin is like it is then? I've never understood why Calne has such a desolate waste of a car-park area in its centre, but then I'd never seen until these great pictures poseted how much it has changed
I have to be honest, quite a lot of the town has been been well done afterwards, with such a huge area being 'reclaimed', it could havebeen a lot worse. |
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| Clunk |
give me an hour and i will post up an ariel pic of what harris' covered. | ||
| Clunk |
Or 35 minutes
If I remember correctly, the pippin, (sainsbury's/phelps parade side) was built for harris' for lorry access to the loading bay which was in the area of the right hand carpark. before, the houses on oxford road used to go from angels corner to the photography shop. Like wise, between shirley's, and errr, what used to be buds night club was an unbroken row of buildings before phelps parade was built. |
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| Top Dog |
These photos and links on here is fantastic and just what this site wants.Massive thankyou to Biggles for sharing these with us all.
:D Also a thankyou to Clunk for a couple of great links in this section. :D |
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| Clunk |
I forgot to mention. The three factory sites in the airial (spelling) photo, were connected by 'sky bridges'. Enclosed bridges between them. | ||
| Bear |
Like wise, between shirley's, and errr, what used to be buds night club was an unbroken row of buildings before phelps parade was built.[/quote]
As I recall what was between Shirleys and what is now a bookmakers originally was a pub called the White Horse |
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| Biggles |
Yeah was the white horse pub. When they built the Phelps Parade the pub (now the bookies) was called the White Horse then changed its name in I think the 80s to the Trotters, remember going there for discos (and riots lol) at night. Then i think it went back to the White Horse | ||
| Bear |
Sorry Biggles you are quite right the bookmakers was at one time a night club called the Trotters and may well have been called the White Horse before that but there was a building which was demolished when Phelps Parade was built that was a public house called the White Horse and stood in what is now the gap between the newsagents and the bookmakers roughly where the statue of the pigs is today. |
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