Grange Road

Grange Road mainly a shopping area with very few residential houses to the west. This photograph was taken on a wet miserable day. When this part of Grange Road, close to the junction of Market Square and Monkton Road was demolished in the 1960s. Some of the small traders found new premises in the town.

Old Grange Road: Shopping Area

The likes of George Nurse pictured above relocated to High Street some half mile from this location

Back in 2002 there was talk once again of demolishing, this time it was to the buildings that had replaced the old grange road buildings in 1963 and were later renovated in the 1980′s. It appears no one wanted to live in them because of the way they had been built. With interconnecting walkways that no longer appealed to tenants.

Grange Road, Town Houses: Present Day 2010

The picture is what it looks like today some 50+ years later. These smart new houses have taken a couple of years to complete, replacing the old shopping area and the maisonettes, built in the sixties, that no one wanted to live in. From the speed the properties sold out it would appear these houses are here to stay.

To the left and right of this picture are the tower blocks that can be seen in the picture of Borough Road.