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Where Is This? No.274
Published on: 9 Sep, 2017
Updated on: 9 Sep, 2017
By David Rose
From the replies received to the previous Where Is This? (No.273), there were three different suggestions as to the location of the vintage picture.
It was suggested to be Racks Close or near The Mount, but the photo, I am sure, was taken in Foxenden Quarry, off York Road.
The houses in the background are a clue, and some readers were therefore correct in their replies.
As for the quirky picture, several readers correctly replied noting it as The Old Post Office, which can be found in The Street, Albury.
Click here to see the post and all the replies at the foot of it.
Back to 1965 – do you recognise this location? Click to enlarge pictures in a new window.
The vintage picture this time was taken in 1965. Do you recognise this parade of shops in an estate / village a few miles outside Guildford?
Where is this in Guildford town centre?
A rooftop plant is the subject of the quirky picture. Do you know where this can be found in the town centre?
If you think you know the answers, and may like to add some extra details as well, please leave a reply in the box below. The answers, along with the next pair of images, will be published in a week or so.
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Dave Middleton
September 9, 2017 at 10:02 am
The parade of shops is on Kiln Meadow / Fairlands Avenue at Fairlands.
The poor, sad, potted plant, stands forlornly on the roof above the entrance to Bar Mambo on Bridge Street in Guildford.
A part of the Casino nightclub complex, that appears to be being allowed to fall into decay and disrepair, in the hope that the council will allow it to be demolished and the hideous and inappropriate glass casino and hotel complex that Mr Harper wanted, be built in its place.
To my mind it’s a shocking crime that this historic building, one of Guildford’s former picture houses, is deliberately being allowed to decay in this manner.
Can nothing be done to save it from such a fate?
Bernard Parke
September 9, 2017 at 10:07 am
Bellfields.
The Casino.
John Lomas
September 9, 2017 at 11:33 am
The shops are on Fairlands Avenue photographed from the start of Brocks Drive and Brooke Forest to the right.
Jan Messinger
September 9, 2017 at 1:02 pm
Fairlands parade of shops, of course. Always love the old photographs.
J E Davey
September 9, 2017 at 2:48 pm
The parade of shops is in Fairlands Avenue, Fairlands estate Worplesdon, and the roof plant is on the right hand roof top of The Casino in Onslow Street
Brian Holt
September 9, 2017 at 8:48 pm
The parade of shops is in Fairlands Avenue, Fairlands Estate. The road at the side of the shops is Brooke Forest.
The parade of shops has a post office which gives excellent service and always helpful with parking outside the shops.
The roof-top plant is on the the Casino nightclub, at the bottom Bridge Street and on the corner of Bedford Road.
Chris Townsend
September 10, 2017 at 7:29 am
The parade of shops is at Fairlands.
The rooftop plant is above the night club on Onslow Street.
C Barker
September 10, 2017 at 10:49 am
Fairlands shops in first picture and the second is the roof of Casino nightclub.
Steve Grove
September 10, 2017 at 5:21 pm
The shops are at the bottom of Stoughton Road near the junction with Woking Road.
The ‘flower’ pot is atop what remains of the Quadrant on the corner of Onslow Street and Bridge Street.
Mike Dillon
September 11, 2017 at 9:49 pm
The building with shops under is on what was Fairlands Estate but now known as Fairlands.
The plant is on the roof of Bar Mambo at the corner of Bridge Street and Onslow Street, Guildford.
Doug and Bill Stanniforth
September 19, 2017 at 11:05 am
The shops are in Stoughton Road, Bellfields.
The plant is on “Casino”, owned by Michel Harper – avid supporter of Guildford Council!
Jackie Montague
September 19, 2017 at 11:10 am
The first picture is the parade of shops at Fairlands.
The second picture of a palm tree is on the side of the Bar Mambo building.
John Lomas
September 23, 2017 at 4:08 pm
That was the Plaza cinema.
Back in the 1950s it was referred to as the “flea pit” in comparison with the Cinema on Woodbridge Road, the Playhouse on High Street and the Odeon at the corner of Upper High Street and Epsom Road.