Belvedere Rd., Outwoods, Wyggeston St.
See also:
http://www.institutions.org.uk/pictures/workhouses/burton_upon_trent_workhouse.htm
for Work House/ Anressey Hospital / Spring Bank.
Belvedere Road
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Junction of Belvedere Rd., Lower Outwoods Rd. & The
Allotments - now Norton Rd. At the top are the vestiges of the Outwoods (which used to stretch round to the Rec), below which is the Outwoods TB Hospital and
encroaching from the bottom the Andressey / new QE Hospital. |
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The Bandstand
  
 
 
The Gardens -- And the swings just outside.
  
By the time I played on the Grand Stride in the late 1950s, it had been joined
by two fairly traditional sets of swings - one with bucket seats for the kiddies
and one with the normal flat seats
on which you could stand and fling yourself heaven-wards to enormous heights,
nearly parallel with the ground. A superb, huge and fearful, green, metal
rocking horse had also joined the fray.
It too was ridden standing up, flinging yourself up and down trying for dear
life to lift it off its stand. A potential den of horrors for accidents and
sheer joy.
The Paddling Pool
Wyggeston Street
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