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Discounting Porters Loke byway of venerable antiquity until demolition of a property of Wroxham Road and the building of Highham Close, Glenburn Avenue was the first residential development on the west side of Wroxham Road. After a building on the left-hand side of considerable historical importance the houses tended to be of typical 1930s development. These did not start however until after an area on the right hand side occupied by a market garden which incorporated a considerable area of glasshouses in front of which stood an old sterilising boiler on wheels. At the point where Glenburn Avenue crossed Neville Road on one corner stood a shop which had traded in many guises the last of which was "Smart Tarts" but this has now become a residential property. At present the only old photograph is one looking from the Neville Road crossroads towards the Wroxham Road. Like most of the roads in this area they were nothing more than dirt tracks with houses either side. Many would remain in this state, un-adopted roads until the 1950s when the provision of tarmac surface and foot paths were instigated. | Discounting Porters Loke byway of venerable antiquity until demolition of a property of Wroxham Road and the building of Highham Close, Glenburn Avenue was the first residential development on the west side of Wroxham Road. After a building on the left-hand side of considerable historical importance the houses tended to be of typical 1930s development. These did not start however until after an area on the right hand side occupied by a market garden which incorporated a considerable area of glasshouses in front of which stood an old sterilising boiler on wheels. At the point where Glenburn Avenue crossed Neville Road on one corner stood a shop which had traded in many guises the last of which was "Smart Tarts" but this has now become a residential property. At present the only old photograph is one looking from the Neville Road crossroads towards the Wroxham Road. Like most of the roads in this area they were nothing more than dirt tracks with houses either side. Many would remain in this state, un-adopted roads until the 1950s when the provision of tarmac surface and foot paths were instigated. | ||
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Revision as of 16:39, 15 February 2017
Discounting Porters Loke byway of venerable antiquity until demolition of a property of Wroxham Road and the building of Highham Close, Glenburn Avenue was the first residential development on the west side of Wroxham Road. After a building on the left-hand side of considerable historical importance the houses tended to be of typical 1930s development. These did not start however until after an area on the right hand side occupied by a market garden which incorporated a considerable area of glasshouses in front of which stood an old sterilising boiler on wheels. At the point where Glenburn Avenue crossed Neville Road on one corner stood a shop which had traded in many guises the last of which was "Smart Tarts" but this has now become a residential property. At present the only old photograph is one looking from the Neville Road crossroads towards the Wroxham Road. Like most of the roads in this area they were nothing more than dirt tracks with houses either side. Many would remain in this state, un-adopted roads until the 1950s when the provision of tarmac surface and foot paths were instigated.
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No 1 Glenburn Avenue, on the corner of Albion Drive. Re Thatched cira 2009. -
Glenburn Avenue looking towards Wroxham Road from the Neville Road junction.1930s
