Gullies and ditches, puddles and floods
‘Observe water standing.’ Thoughts on gully cleaning and ditch scouring, after a weekend of drain watching.
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Building on the green: Bert Keech Bowls Club, and nearby
As plans for housing on an old bowling green look likely to be approved this week, looking at the issues involved, and at old photos of the area when its existing housing was fairly new.
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Back Linton St and Amberley St, 100 years ago
Let’s take a break from current controversies and return to those sepia toned streets of a hundred years ago. We’re in one of the areas of terraced housing off Poppleton Road.
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I’ve recently been sent a fascinating batch of old photos, taken in about 1913. Well, I think they’re fascinating. They’re ‘right up my street’, and if you live on Linton Street this one is literally right up yours.
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