{"id":217776,"date":"2010-01-23T19:25:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T00:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1052309"},"modified":"2010-01-23T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T00:25:16","slug":"does-a-little-bit-of-belle-vue-still-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217776","title":{"rendered":"Does a little bit of Belle Vue still exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Having been fiddling around with Google Earth overlay, and a 1933 os map of Belle Vue, I noticed that the &quot;boulevard&quot; that led into the park from the second gate on Redgate Lane, appeared to still exist, sandwiched between the housing estate and the car auction place. I think it was a tarmac&#8217;ed roadway, wonder if its still there in the trees?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc3\/hs141.snc3\/16865_441956915034_629910034_10895888_5261977_n.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The entrance used to look like this, the blue arrow on the pic above showing where the photo was taken from<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash1\/hs241.ash1\/16865_441956920034_629910034_10895889_954992_n.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Its also interesting to see how much space would be created if the car auction and cinema were to be swept away. More than enough for a new Belle Vue, and maybe even more space than the original given that the old park didn&#8217;t have the top left hand corner, plus the speedway track and exhibition hall wouldnt be there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc3\/hs121.snc3\/16865_441999080034_629910034_10896116_5944374_n.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah well I can dream. I have happy memories of going here as a kiddie. Not in its best days admittedly, but it was another world, a bubble of fun in a grey city.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been fiddling around with Google Earth overlay, and a 1933 os map of Belle Vue, I noticed that the &quot;boulevard&quot; that led into the park from the second gate on Redgate Lane, appeared to still exist, sandwiched between the housing estate and the car auction place. I think it was a tarmac&#8217;ed roadway, wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}