(10) Building the Northdown Road

I built these walls with my hands

About 150  years later the same street still stands

A testament to the work and skill

Of building houses upon the hill

And along the Northdown Road

There were only fields when we started out

But soon whole streets were all about

Bricks and wood, windows and doors

Building upwards ; two or three floors

All along the Northdown Road.

And when today you pass by

Lifting your eyes to the sky

And see the Brick chimneys tall

Lined up in a row, one and all

All along the Northdown Road.

We built many facades great

With architecture so ornate

Block Modillions and Cornices bold

Carved in the Roman style of old

All along the Northdown Road

Now things have moved on apace here and there

Since we built Caroline Square

Different styles we when made

with Doric pillar and balustrade

All along the Northdown Road

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Old MFI Store in Northdown Road

Mummery Shop at 126 Northdown Road

St Paul's Church consecrated in 1873

St Paul's Church

G Lucas Hairstylist 101 Northdown Road

Amazing brickwork in Viking Close off Northdown Road

Ornate Designs

Thornton Bobby 242 Northdown Road

Bobby's Store Northdown Road

Spurgeon's Holiday Home above Costa Coffee

Many years before John Bello, Tailor at 209 Northdown Road

1912 Building above Saunders Electricals

Part of the Palladium Garage then Astoria Cinema