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Biggles
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 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:33 pm Post subject: Calne During The Harris Demolition - Part 4 |
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Last lot for a while will have to open another box of slides and prints and see what else Ive got with local interest
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Looking towards trotmans from where sainsburys is now
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Looking from Somerfields walking bridge towards where sainsburys is now
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Looking from Bust Stop outside Sainsburys towards Somerfields
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Kizzy
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Local lass
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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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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Local lass wrote: | | harris was never on where the pippen car park is now was it? |
where the sainsburys carpark is. (the one on the right as you look at sainsburys) was where the lorrys dropped off the pigs. |
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rosco
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| give me an hour and i will post up an ariel pic of what harris' covered. |
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Clunk
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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These photos and links on here is fantastic and just what this site wants.Massive thankyou to Biggles for sharing these with us all.
Also a thankyou to Clunk for a couple of great links in this section. |
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Clunk
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I forgot to mention. The three factory sites in the airial (spelling) photo, were connected by 'sky bridges'. Enclosed bridges between them. |
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Bear
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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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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