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Description: | The shop on the right is W. Gibson, Drapers. The view is assumed to have been taken from the junction of the High Street with Willoughby Road. In the distance can be seen Langley Hall, the Actors' Orphanage. This was endeared to the people of Slough through the pantomime given there annually. The Hall was badly damaged by fire in 1972. In 1956 Langley Hall was occupied by the Road Research Laboratory. Langley Hall was originally known as Langley Place.
On the 1899 Ordnance Map, Willoughby Road does not exist, but it is shown on the 1924 Map. The photograph appears to have been taken by Mr. Gibson, owner of the shop.The caption on the photograph refers to the house in the background as 'Trevener' and states that the owner built the shops seen on the right. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Langley Recreation Ground ; W. Gibson, Drapers Shops ; Houses ; Parks ; Langley Hall ; Langley Place | Temporal: | start=1928-01-01; end=1939-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copy by Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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