Starting at College Yard it runs northwards past pretty little workers' cottages where it's hard to believe that a bus route is a stone's throw away.
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| Walking northwards from Somerset Road (top left) |
Before the tunnel is the junction of Little Green Street:
With just eight houses on one side and two on the other, all of which were built in 1780 and are Grade II listed, it harks back to a bygone age of carts and flat caps. The street was the inspiration, and featured briefly in the video, for The Kinks' Dead End Street*. More recently the road was threatened with demolition in order to create a gated driveway for 30 new properties being built at the rear. Read more about that evil plan here. And here for a 2012 update.
* which surely inspired this great video by Oasis
I had no idea about the Kinks/Little Green St connection. I don't think I've seen that video(?) since 1966 and back then I'd never heard of LGS!
ReplyDeleteBlimey, the Sinclair pocket calculator in my head just worked out that 1966 is nearly 50 years ago........this is not possible, there must be some mistake........that bloody Sinclair was always too clever for his own good!