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QUEEN MARY AVENUE – SANDRINGHAM DRIVE

Sandringham Drive

Neighbourhood:
West Blatchington
1969
2018

James Gray: This photographs and the previous one [jgc_36_157] highlight the tortoise-like progress of building developments in the 1960s and 70s. Both photographs were taken on 2 March 1969. This photograph shows the junction of Sandringham Drive and Queen Mary Avenue. Now in January 1974, nearly five years later, the four houses are finished and occupied, while others have been built in the Drive, some occupied and others not, but the two roads are just being made up. jgc_36_158

2018: In 2018, rows of two-storey town houses with front balconies over semi-integral garages now line both sides of Sandringham Drive from this viewpoint. In the distance, six bungalows on the left complete the buildings on that side before the junction with Woodland Avenue. Queen Mary Avenue now runs off to the right, with the roof of No 11 just visible on the extreme right of the 2018 photo. See the Queen Mary Avenue page for jgc_36_157. (Photographer: Alan Hobden)

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1969
2018

James Gray: I had these three photographs [see also jgc_17_092 and 093 on the Woodland Avenue page] taken for me on 2 March 1969. The builder’s roads had not long been put in and it seemed that development would soon follow. This and the next photograph [jgc_17_092] look north-eastwards along Sandringham Drive, to its junction with Woodland Avenue, which was built over in the late 1970s. jgc_17_091

2018: Bungalows to the left, and town houses to the right now line this north-eastern end of Sandringham Drive. Large detached houses in Woodland Avenue face them across the T-junction. The curve of the road remains unchanged. (Photographer: Alan Hobden)

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