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Description: | View of Curzon Street and Mackenzie Street from the tower of Our Lady Immaculate and St. Ethelbert Church looking east towards the area where the Queensmere Shopping Mall later stood.
In the photograph, some of the large three storey plus semi-basement houses in Mackenzie Street are already looking unoccupied and awaiting demolition.These houses would have been for the new middle classes who came to live in Slough in the 19th century with the coming of the railway and easy access to London. The large building in the distance is probably Newsweek House and the domed building is probabily the Licenened Victuallars School. The road just visible on the right is the High Street.
Demolition was carried out in the 1960-70 period when Wellington Street was widened as the main through road in Slough. As a consequence the church now faces the large roundabout at the junction of Wellington Street with Windsor Road and William Street. Curzon Street no longer exists and Mackenzie Street is reduced to a forecourt in front of the Queenmsmere Shopping Mall. | 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 ; Newsweek House | Temporal: | start=1955-01-01; end=1970-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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