Twickenham, King Street c.1960
Photo ref:
T91038
More about this scene
In 1954 the old railway station buildings (where the car park is today outside the Albany) were replaced by the present booking office on London Road, and the platforms moved up to the other side of the road. Also scheduled for redevelopment was the remaining old part of the town between Church Street and the river, which had suffered bomb damage in the war. In the 1950s, Middlesex County Council planners were asked to draw up a plan for renovation of the embankment and Church Street area by the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. Predictably, the planners came up with a scheme for knocking down most of Church Street and replacing it with flats (the proposed scheme would also have included demolishing the Queen's Head and the Fox Inn, and straightening the street). This scheme caused dismay beyond the confines of the town, in a row reminiscent of the one in 2005 over plans to knock down Victorian housing in Liverpool and replace it with modern housing stock.
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