Paving the way!

How things were before the new tiles were laid!
How things were before the new tiles were laid!

It’s good to report a positive development that has really tided up a ‘work in progress’ beside

That's better. An even surface now leading to the back entrance to Waitrose.
That’s better. An even surface now leading to the back entrance to Waitrose.

Pulteney Bridge.

The area that caught my eye recently is the passageway that leads up and past the old Duck Son & Pinker building and into the rear entrance of Waitrose.

Empty units in that corner have now been filled with new businesses but there remained a strip of tarmac covering a trench that seems to form an unofficial boundary between one tiled surface and another.

Now today from the Future Heritage Group – who are the developers of the site – comes photographic evidence that a new and smoothly-paved surface lines the passageway and unites all.

My thanks to Jane Alexander for sending the images to the Virtual Museum.

It is already looking much better and it is good to see a derelict site brought back to commercial life.