Well you live and learn . I always thought that Eastgate was the name of a road but this photo that I took on February 28 2017 shows that Eastgate is actually a doorway!
The doorway is near the Eastgate roundabout and is in use as some people came out while I was a few minutes in the area (nobody though went in!).
Eastgate is a doorway not a road (a just for fun item).
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Eastgate is a doorway not a road (a just for fun item).
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Re: Eastgate is a doorway not a road (a just for fun item).
Hi Leodian,
Alot of people think that Eastgate starts at Vicar Lane and ends at the roundabout system at St Peter’s Street/Bridge Street (where the petrol station used to be), when, in fact, it veers left at the roundabout, in a northerly direction, and finishes at New York Road/Regent Street. I think that your photograph is part of the old Marquis of Granby pub.
Ian
Alot of people think that Eastgate starts at Vicar Lane and ends at the roundabout system at St Peter’s Street/Bridge Street (where the petrol station used to be), when, in fact, it veers left at the roundabout, in a northerly direction, and finishes at New York Road/Regent Street. I think that your photograph is part of the old Marquis of Granby pub.
Ian
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Hi Ian .iansmithofotley wrote:Hi Leodian,
Alot of people think that Eastgate starts at Vicar Lane and ends at the roundabout system at St Peter’s Street/Bridge Street (where the petrol station used to be), when, in fact, it veers left at the roundabout, in a northerly direction, and finishes at New York Road/Regent Street. I think that your photograph is part of the old Marquis of Granby pub.
Ian
It was not until early last June that I found out that Eastgate ran further than I thought when I saw an Eastgate road sign on the wall of the homes near to the New York Road flyover. Up to then I would have said the road there was the start of Regent Street.
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Re: Eastgate is a doorway not a road (a just for fun item).
Eastgate in 1964
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Is this the end of the story ...or the beginning of a legend?
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Thanks for providing the 1964 map buffaloskinner .
There certainly have been massive changes to the area since then!
There certainly have been massive changes to the area since then!
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Re: Eastgate is a doorway not a road (a just for fun item).
The part of Eastgate that stretches from St Peter's St to New York Road/ Regent Street was originally the south west (ish) part of Quarry Hill. The rest of Quarry Hill being buried under New York Road.