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Description: | The caption on the photograph refers to Arbor Hill which is assumed to be Arbour Hill, located at the road junction of the Windsor Road, Albert Street and Chalvey Road. At the bottom of the hill the 1876 ordnance map shows Arbour Vale Cottages.
This hill apparently defines the edge of the Taplow Terrace upon which the town of Slough is built. This terrace is one of several in the Thames Valley showing the varying levels of the flood plain during the last million years.
Observatory House was still shown on the ordnance map at this time and is screened by the trees on the right. The road was fronted by large detached houses, some of which became offices at a later date. A view of the road in 1970 can be seen in image sl-sl-rhs_u8_23windsorroad74d-i-00-000.jpg. A view of the same section of road taken in 1984 can be seen in image sl-sl-rhs_u8_24windsorroad-i-00-000.jpg. | 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: | Houses | Temporal: | start=1890-01-01; end=1930-01-01; | 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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