This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the
waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).
This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the
waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).
Built on slightly
higher land away from
the river, it turns its
back on it, and this
view looks north-west
along the High Street to
the Church Street
crossroads.
The houses on the right survive, but those to the left of the monument were swept away and replaced by a small park, just one of many 'improvements' after 1963.
Beyond, stretching from right to left, is the line of West Street through to the Town Hall and Market Place, with the chimneys of the net-makers Joseph Gundry & Company (centre left), Ewens & Turner in
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