Lancaster Road: a sign screwed over the original paint on brick . The 'L' and 'AD' can be seen at each end, with the tops of the capitals appearing over the top edge of the metal sign. Not far away, and even more mysterious, are the traces of lettering on the wall of the building at the corner of Nottidge Road and Alexandra Road.

Here the words 'Nottidge Road' are still traceable in two previous painted versions, the first part removed/obliterated by new brickwork and a plastic downpipe. The building carried an extension which formed a grocery shop until about twenty years ago (there was a tiny hidden Tolly Cobbold off-licence behind it in Alexandra Road which was open in the evenings). For some years it was a yacht chandlery - some years before the Wet Dock was developed as a marina - and has now been converted into flats, the way of so many of our corner shops.

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