This week’s pictures from the past
Friday 17th October 2008, 12:49AM BST.
These Donnington homes were new when this photo was taken during World War Two. The print has a July 20, 1943, date stamp.
Pre-war Donnington had been little more than a village, but was vastly expanded during wartime with homes for workers serving at the massive Donnington depot.
This view seems to have been taken from the balcony of the Parade shopping centre – itself built as part of the development.
We are looking down Winifred’s Drive. Incidentally, does anybody know who Winifred, after whom this drive was presumably named, was?
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The bar still exists. It is now called the Seven Bar, its a great place to eat and drink. Looks similar on the outside but the inside has changed i guess.
I remember that the Seven used to be call the Crown. It had a big function room at the back (Now built over with houses). – This may have been the Gym??
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