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A rather brutalist building appeared on this corner in the 1960s, opposite the Royal Oak. It housed S S White, a dental equipment supplier. The street level plate glass of the building was extensive, causing this corner of Clarendon Road and St Anns Road to be known as 'Admiration Bend' by the motorcycling fraternity, who would lean their bikes extravagantly round the corner and admire their own reflections in the windows of S S White as they passed. No doubt a number of accidents would have resulted in this manner. '