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Volvo's bus and truck garage - Oct/Nov 2020

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Volvo has a facility for maintaining buses, coaches and trucks on Byron Street Extension, opposite the Willowbrook Retail Park and off Derby Road. The facility on Byron Street. 10/2020 The facility appears to be having an unbusy day in October 2020. The garage in November 2020. On this visit, some buses had come from rather far away. The two blue VDL Jonckheere coaches are that of Golden Tours of London, who operate open-top bus tours in London as well as day trips. The single-decker bus is a Volvo-engined MCV eVoRa, destined for Lothian in Scotland. Byron Street Extension, looking towards Derby Road; the garage is on the right.

5 old photos - 2009/10

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Alan Moss Road (upper section) in October 2010. Epinal Way in January 2009. Queen's Park in July 2009. In the foreground of both pictures was where the bell casing of Great Paul, which was formerly the largest bell in the British Isles, was put on public display.

Assorted photographs - Sept - Oct 2020

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  Ashby Road, looking away from the town centre. Burton Street, from Burton Walks. A Morrisons delivery van on Frederick Street, turning the corner into Browns Lane. William Street, looking towards the block of flats near Ashby Road.. A National Express Caetano Levante 2 thunders through the rain on Ashby Road on its way to London. Schofield Road, looking downhill. The Spar and hairdressers on Old Ashby Road. The Bargain Booze off-licence on the corner of Alan Moss Road and Albany Street. Council properties on Shelley Street. Loughborough Fire Station. It was opened in 1974, replacing Bridge Street fire station. The MUGA at Jubilee Park.     Windsor Road, looking towards Sandringham Drive. Derby Road, looking towards Bishop Meadow Roundabout and in the opposite direction (below).

Swan Street and the Market Place - photos from high places - August 2017/September 2018/February 2020

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  Swan Street, looking towards the Market Place, Sept. 2018. High Street, from the first floor of the town centre McDonalds. 09/2017 Scenes of High Street and the Market Place taken from the first floor of the town centre branch of McDonalds. The window offer some excellent views. 09/2017 Swan Street, looking towards Derby Square. 02/2020 The Carillon Court Shopping Centre. 02/2020 Inside the shopping centre car park. Note the unusual lift arrangement. 02/2020 The view from the car park also gives impressive views. 02/2020. The former Loughborough Echo building. 02/2020.

Wards End - September 2020

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Three photographs of Wards end taken on a sunny day two months ago. Wards End, looking towards Forest Road. Wards End, looking towards the town centre (also below.)

New homes in the south

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 From 2006 till 2020, various housebuilders were building homes to the south of Loughborough. These were William Davis Homes, which built most of the homes in the largest development, Grange Park; Jelson Homes, which built homes as part of the Grange Park scheme in the west of the development next to the Haddon Way estates - this was called Grange Vale; David Wilson Homes, which built The Chimes, the smallest development by far; and last but not least, Morris Homes' Trinity Gardens development. These schemes are apparently completed. These photographs mainly show the William Davis and David Wilson developments. These photos were taken in January 2018. Some of these photographs were published previously in the post Houses and more (August 2020). Highland Drive, looking towards the Chimes estate by David Wilson Homes. Houses under construction on the Chimes estate. Completed houses on the Chimes estate. Construction works on the Chimes estate. The open space between the Chimes and Gr