Basingstoke Station & Churchill Way Before The Malls Were Constructed

If you were to stand at this location today, you would be looking along Old Basing Mall in The Malls in Basingstoke from St John's Square in Festival Place.

The building in the distance is Basingstoke Station, which is a railway station in Hampshire, England, that serves as a junction for several lines. It connects London Waterloo with Southampton, Reading with Basingstoke, and Birmingham with Bournemouth. It also used to be the terminus of the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, a short-lived branch that closed in 1932. The station has five platforms and is managed by South Western Railway. It is located on Station Hill, near the town centre and the Festival Place shopping mall.

It is 76.9 km down the line from London Waterloo, and 82.9 km from London Paddington.

The road here is the A3010 Churchill Way, which is a major road in the town of Basingstoke. It runs from the junction with the A339 Ringway East to the junction with the A340 Ringway West. The road is named after Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who visited Basingstoke in 1943. The road is part of the Basingstoke Inner Ring Road, which was built in the 1960s and 1970s to ease traffic congestion in the town centre. The road has four lanes, two in each direction, and is controlled by traffic lights at several intersections. The road passes through several commercial and residential areas, as well as some landmarks such as the Festival Place shopping centre, the Basingstoke railway station, and the Anvil theatre.

The A3010 now continues unseen through the middle of the Malls shopping centre, which is accessible from it.

The bright red car here is a Bond Equipe 2L Convertible, which was a British sports car produced from 1968 to 1970 by Bond Cars Ltd. It was based on the Triumph Vitesse chassis and engine, but with a distinctive fibreglass body that featured a fastback design and a folding bonnet. The car had a six-cylinder engine that delivered 104 bhp and could reach a top speed of 160 kph. The Bond Equipe 2L Convertible was one of the last models made by Bond before the company was taken over by Reliant in 1969.

Before The Malls were built, the site was occupied by a number of small residential and commercial properties and by the clothing factory of Gerrish, Ames and Simpkins. These properties were demolished in 1967 as part of a major redevelopment of central Basingstoke, which aimed at providing a large, modern shopping centre. Because of financial constraints however, what had initially been conceived as single development was divided into three parts at an early stage; Phase one, later renamed The Walks, Phase two which would become The Malls and Phase three which was eventually considered superfluous and used instead as the site for The Anvil concert hall.

Phase two began in 1978. As was originally conceived, this second phase would integrate seamlessly with the initial phase so that as far as shoppers were concerned, the shopping centre would be a single unit. The design for Phase two was by architects Llewelyn, Davis, Weeks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke_railway_station

www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A3010

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_Equipe

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malls,_Basingstoke

Taken in: UK / England / Basingstoke and Deane District / Basingstoke (show map)

Taken on: August 23, 1976

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