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Western woodlands - September 2020

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Two locations are shown here; Obelisk Way, the footpath running between Booth Wood and the Garendon Estate obelisk named Obelisk Way, and Booth Wood. The first seventeen photographs were taken on Obelisk Way, the remaining four were taken in Booth Wood. (The obelisk is not shown.) Hungry trees will eat all sorts of things...  

Scenes from the Knightthorpe and Ashby Road estates - September 2020

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  Alan Moss Road looking towards the Epinal Way roundabout. Open spaces are generously sprinkled across council estates; this one is on Alan Moss Road. Rupert Brooke Road. Named after the World War One soldier and poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), part of this street was part of the former road between Ashby Road and Thorpe Acre, Cranes building flats in the town centre seen from Thorpe Hill. These cranes are probably the tallest temporary structures in Loughborough at present. Alan Moss Road at the top of Thorpe Hill. The railings ate that of the Mormons. Thorpe Hill. The hill is home to several schools: Maplewell Hall, Ashmount, De Lisle and Charnwood College secondary schools and nearby Thorpe Acre Junior and Infant schools and Booth Wood Primary School. Looking south downhill At the bottom of the hill, two blocks of flats were built on the site of the Garendon Club. Schofield Road is named after Herbert Schofield (1882-1963), principal of Loughborough College (later Loughborough Univ