EPW018557 ENGLAND (1927). St Botulph's Church and Plough Corner, Colchester, 1927

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Manylion

Pennawd [EPW018557] St Botulph's Church and Plough Corner, Colchester, 1927
Cyfeirnod EPW018557
Dyddiad 20-June-1927
Dolen
Enw lle COLCHESTER
Plwyf
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 599902, 224856
Hydred / Lledred 0.90507551265813, 51.885924939467
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol TL999249

Pinnau

Britannia Steel Works, now the Britannia car park.

PrezAlan
Saturday 14th of March 2015 02:59:30 PM
I think this was a clothes factory? Destroyed by the Luftwaffe in WWII, it is now the site of a Gala Bingo/NCP car park.

PrezAlan
Saturday 14th of March 2015 02:58:01 PM
Bus depo, once the site of a Victorian theatre

PrezAlan
Saturday 14th of March 2015 02:55:56 PM
Queen Street

woodsy007
Monday 17th of November 2014 08:48:40 PM
The Plough Public House

woodsy007
Monday 17th of November 2014 08:47:12 PM
St Botolph's Priory (ancient ruins)

woodsy007
Sunday 27th of July 2014 07:04:31 PM
St Botolph's Railway Station Ticket Office

woodsy007
Sunday 27th of July 2014 07:03:30 PM
St Botolph's Church

woodsy007
Sunday 27th of July 2014 07:02:42 PM
Colchester Trams ran on 3' 6" gauge track from 1904 to 1928-29, when they were replaced by buses. At 24 years this is not a bad record for this form of transport that came and went from the British scene rather quickly. How much more of the original investment could have been released if the life of the systems had been rather longer. Or is this just another example of the British wasting capital with changes of public policy?

Maurice
Wednesday 17th of April 2013 08:21:07 AM
Colchester Trams ran here, under the elegant single pole catenary carrier. When we had tram tracks perhaps white lines were not so necessary! See other pins

Maurice
Wednesday 17th of April 2013 08:12:20 AM
Is this an early application of white lines on roads around junctions?

Maurice
Wednesday 17th of April 2013 07:21:24 AM
In the U.K. The first "white line" road markings appeared on a number of dangerous bends on the London-Folkestone road at Ashford, Kent, in 1914, and during the 1920s the rise of painted lines on UK roads grew dramatically. In 1926, the Ministry of Transport issued official guidelines defining where and how white lines should be used. A broken white line in the direction of travel, where the gaps are longer than the painted lines, indicates the centre of the road and that there are no hazards specific to the design and layout of the road, i.e. no turnings, sharp bends ahead etc. A broken white line in which the gaps are shorter than the painted lines indicates an upcoming hazard, the proportion of white to black indicates the degree of hazard i.e. more white means more hazard.



See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_surface_marking



While the picture is 1927 and so post the 1926 official guidelines, the rather sketchy nature of these lines suggest they might have been some local initiative/interpretation. There is no stop line and the ‘S’ shaped ‘centre’ line is very much off centre.

Maurice
Wednesday 17th of April 2013 08:09:36 AM
Empire cimema, spent all my pocket money watchingb films

romons
Monday 17th of December 2012 08:44:41 PM