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jennie  - Tropical   |Thu-12-2007
I love that photo, with a sepia tone it looks almost tropical!
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Roger  - Earlier   |Fri-12-2007
The exotic plants in the gardens certainly don't make it look like a typical
English town! --and, as jennie says, the sepia tone adds to the magic.
I think
the photo is earlier than the 1950's though -- the trolley bus on Richmond Hill
suggests mid/late thirties as the earliest, and the fact that the Central Hotel
and Punshon Memorial spire are still there places it before 23rd May 1943, when
the Central got flattened, and Punshon Memorial was badly damaged.
Now to find
a detail to date it even closer.....still looking! :)
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David Ballantine from Canada   |Fri-05-2008
I would have to agree that this picture is definately not in the 50's as I have
always remembered having the roundabout and the clock tower in the middle of the
garden around it.
The trolly buses appeared on the scene in the mid 30's so my
guess would be in the late 30's or during the war because of the earlier comment
by Roger re 23rd May 1943 bomb damage.
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Mark Tyler   |Thu-06-2008
I am inclined to go for late thirties, the tram shelter the Hotel and the church
are still there, the roundabout came in the late forties taking the place of
this shelter.
The trolleybus on Richmond Hill also has a light (white or
primrose) roof, from WW2 (and well into the fifties) this model of trolleybus
had chocolate brown roofs - intended to make them less visible in the war.
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