Building Grove Road

In our previous blog entry, we saw that a row of lime trees had to be felled in order to clear a route for the main roadway through the planned housing development on the former Grove Farm land. The road would link The Spring with Parsonage Lane and Spin Hill and Canada Rise, where there is now a small roundabout. This photograph from our Building work on the Grove Farm site shows Grove Road completed, although there were still many houses to be built on the grassland.

We are currently about to accession a donation of yet another set of photos recording the building on this site. Here we see a large vehicle working on producing the route for Grove Road.

The road left The Spring directly opposite the garage, where there is now a roundabout.

We have another photo, already in our museum collection, showing road building at Grove Farm.

This one is dated 1988-9. Its record informs us that many trees in the row of Scotch firs in the background, on the manor driveway, were blown down in a storm in January 1990.