Syston, Melton Road c.1955
Photo ref:
S488007
More about this scene
How did it happen? Syston, a Domesday village situated about four miles north of Leicester, was industrialised by an influx of framework knitters in the 19th century, which generated standardised red brick buildings of neat and unobtrusive design. Even the cinema of the 1930s on the right is in relative harmony with its surroundings. It is not, in fact, until after the Second World War that the village became devastated by plan- ning ineptness. In place of the cinema is now an ill-designed single-storey supermarket with a similar building next door, and this pattern extends its tentacles into the heart of the village until it is spoiled.
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