Road running east to west from Haswell Ave to the area which was once the North Works of the Steel Works and now across Brenda Road and Belle Vue Way.
The lady is standing at a bus stop in Brenda Road waiting for a bus going into town. Just out of sight past the right hand house is Windermere Road and that house actually fronts onto Windermere Road. There are traffic lights now at the junction of these two roads but the houses are still recognisable.
There is no longer a sign on the fence requesting people not to lean on it. Having said that, the lady was not taking notice ! The photo is from the early 1950s.
More detail »Taken in the mid 1960s, a shop which still exists on the corner of Windermere and Brenda Roads although it has had many uses over the years.
In the right hand of the corner window, which has the Wall's board, is an advert for Jubbly. These were much loved by 1960s children and were blocks of orange ice in the shape of a triangular prism which children would suck until clear ice. The great danger of a Jubbly was that if you pushed at it too hard in the carton, it would shoot out!
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More detail »Taken in 1962, the shop has had a makeover by the time the second view was taken a few years later.
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More detail »At the bottom of Windermere Road on what was briefly called the Sheepshank Estate. The prefabs were built after WW2 and the roads named after places in the Lake District. The estate was, as can be seen, very close indeed to the Steel Works.
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