Broadway

 Broadway. The place that anyone who is anyone lives. The place where all the movie stars hang out. The place where all the businessmen and businesswomen work. The place where - hold on, that's the wrong Broadway!

While Broadway is a name associated with certain famous and important streets in the likes of London or New York City, Loughborough's Broadway is quite different. It doesn't have fancy limos or glitzy celebrities or mega-rich business tycoons. In short, it's not very fancy at all, but rather almost the opposite. Welcome to Broadway, Loughborough!

Broadway, built in the late 1940s, is on the Shelthorpe Estate. It is roughly 570 metres long, and runs from Park Road at its western end to Manor Road at the other end. It was built in a long single curve; halfway along it crosses Beaumont Road. It also crosses Maple Road further to the east, and Willow Road begins further west. Opposite Willow Road is a cul-de-sac, and between Willow Road and Beaumont Road is a second cul-de-sac.

Are there any signs of some urban life? Well, just off Broadway, at the end of Beaumont Road, where it meets with Poplar Road and Walnut Road, is the Hunter's Moon (Spar) convenience store; as the name suggests, this used to be a pub. It's another fair example of a pub that died a death and was reborn into a convenience store of some form. Also, the Kinchbus 11/12 town circulars run in opposite directions along the whole length of Broadway,  and the Kinchbus 5 also passes along Poplar Road and Walnut Road. Which is useful to know if you plan to visit this rather ordinary road.

The two images were taken in early April 2021. The image above is looking towards the Manor Road end, while the other looks towards Park Road. Both were taken from the entrance of the second cul-de-sac mentioned earlier.