| Building |
History |
Key issues
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| RECREATIONAL BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED PLACES |
Recreation ground, Cricket, Tennis & Bowls Clubs
Osborne St
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Large T shaped site with recreation and cricket ground to cross bar
and tennis club and bowling green to stem. Built late 19th century |
Unsympathetic planting around tennis club
(leylandi hedges) |
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| Wolverton Park |
Cycle track, football pitch and grandstand and Lodge House built in 1885.
Opened by LNWR in 1885 to provide facilities for workforce. Grandstand
early 1899. Whitsun athletics and cycling meetings had national significance.
Wolverton Town FC very prominent in early c20th
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Vulnerable to encroaching development and
ownership changes. Unlisted. Significant
element of railway town facilities, showing
company's concern for health of workforce. |
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Working Men's Club ('Bottom Club')
and houses to west
Stratford Road |
Substantial 2 story double fronted with Flemish gabled dormers
Built in 1898 Architect Charles Dorman of Northampton |
Poor maintenance - falling membership.
Erosion of core qualities. Unlisted |
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Working Men's Club ('Top Club')
Western Road |
Working Men's Club. Substantial property in own block
(surrounded by roads and backways)
Built in 1907. Architect Mr Anthony of St.Paul's Square Bedford. |
Falling membership and change of use.
Poor maintenance. |
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