It's not every day you discover a library lost for decades whilst walking to buy a loaf of bread.
But at the back of Aspen House, in the alleyway that links Regent Street and Granville Street, just a few inches below where the tarmac has broken away, is a double-line of bricks.
Looking at this map from the Swindon Collection, it's marked in 1956 as a 'Arts Centre and Junior Library'. It's shape and location makes it seem to be the Northern wall, running South-West to North-East.
In a similar way to the remains of Byron Street that we found just a few inches below the street surface, it makes you wonder how many other buildings in Swindon lie just below our feet, waiting to be discovered...
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The broken red brick sits clearly amongst the broken tarmac and fag-ends. |
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To give some context, the close-up picture is about an inch to the left of the left gate-post of the back of the Aspen House site. |
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