These two photos show two of the streets of the Railway Village as they are now. The first is Exeter Street (main photo 230,860 bytes) and the second Bathampton Street (with part of the old Mechanics' Institute visible in the distance) (226,469 bytes), both seen from the west.
The village was built by the Great Western Railway to house the workers in the then new adjacent factory.
This photo (38,419 bytes) shows numbers 84 and 85 Albion Street, together with parts of numbers 83 and 86. The red brick front and sash windows of number 85 most closely resembles the original design of all these houses.
The first photo shows numbers 61 and 62, on the north side (39,994 bytes)
The second photo shows the north side from Roseberry Street, looking west towards the town centre (25,815 bytes)
The third photo shows numbers 61, 62 and 63 - the last is on the corner of Roseberry Street (31,942 bytes)
The fourth photo shows numbers 80 and 81, on the south side (33,934 bytes)
The fifth photo shows numbers 81, 82 and 83 (266,676 bytes)
The sixth photo shows numbers 78 to 83, and the side of number 84 which is on the far side of Roseberry Street (306,234 bytes)
The seventh photo shows the south side from Roseberry street towards the town centre (25,989 bytes)
The eighth photo shows numbers 86 to 90 (265,874 bytes)
Number 80 Croft Road, which is on the west side. (Photo 22,885 bytes).
The first photo (21,287 bytes) shows numbers 65 and 66 Dixon Street, and the second (35,715 bytes) numbers 66, 67 and 68. I lived here, in number 67, with my parents and brother for a time as an infant, and my mother's brother and his family lived in number 68. I think a relative of my father's was living in number 66. At that time all three houses, and most others in the road, looked like number 66 does in these pictures.
The first photo (28,499 bytes) shows most of the south side of Maidstone Road, looking towards Hythe Road. The second (25,374 bytes) also looks eastwards towards Hythe Road, from the junction with Kent Road.
This is a photo (26,743 bytes) of number 80 The Mall, just a short way along the road from Commonweal School.
This photo (35,769 bytes) shows number 86 Tydeman Street, in the Gorse Hill area, where my parents were living when I was born.
The first photo (29,948 bytes) shows number 71 Winifred Street, where my mother was born and grew up, and where her parents spent most of their married lives. The low brick wall of this house, unlke its neigbours, is (apart from the white paint on the red brick) the original; the coping is made of semi-circular waterproof blue bricks. The second photo (29,378 bytes) shows the entire road from the Evelyn Street end; number 71, on the right, has the "SOLD" sign.
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