Swindon, Regent Street 1948
Photo ref:
S254009
More about this scene
The View North-West This thoroughfare was originally lined with workers' cottages, but from about 1865 many of these dwellings were converted into shops. The small shop fronts to the left were built out from the original terraced houses. On the far left is the Regent Street Primitive Methodist church; it had been built here in 1876 to replace two former chapels on the same site of 1849 and 1863. In 1895 a large Sunday school was built behind the chapel. This remained for many years, even after the chapel itself was demolished in 1957. It served for some years as Swindon's first arts centre and as the children's library.
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