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1-3 Devizes Road, Old Town, Swindon, Wiltshire



At this address:
    New Swindon Industrial Co-operative Society       [Source: "Swindon a Fourth Selection" - by The Swindon Society, page 96.]
    Mr Ashcroft's Pine Shop       [Source: Photograph 01286]
    Francis George Solicitor Advocate       [Source: Photograph 01290]
    Cakes & Ale       [Source: Photograph 02847]
    Los Gatos       [Source: Photograph 06381]
    Nurture Marketing       [Source: Photograph 06381]
    The Eternal Optimist Bar       [Source: Photograph 06676]
Our photographs are a snapshot in time to show a building's history.  Businesses shown may no longer be trading here.

Number 1-3 Devizes Road is located in the Old Town area of Swindon and is approximately half of the whole building (the left side) shown in the first photographs below.  We do now know if originally this was three separate premises, but today the ground floor 'shop' area at least is just one room with one business in it.

Although the ground floor shop fronts change over time, if you look up we can see the original design of red-brick and contrasting decorative stone.  Very pleasing, especially as lots of Swindon's red brick buildings have been painted over and somehow lose their history in doing so.  There are more photographs of the building to be seen on the individual pages for  1-4 Devizes Road  and   4 Devizes Road  - whilst this page is mostly about number 1-3.

Our photographs start in 2008 with Mr Ashcroft's Pine Shop (which also occupied No. 4) and come up-to-date in 2019 with Los Gatos restaurant on the ground floor and The Eternal Optimist bar on the first floor.  The photographs do rather jump from one time to another as we show the areas of the building together but our pages are, after all, about the building not about the businesses in them.

1-3 Devizes Road SN1 4BJ
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The whole building of 1-4 Devizes Road, numbers 1-3 are the left side
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Photo Date: June 2019
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Roughly the same view in 2013 ...
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Photo Date: September 2013
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... and in 2008 when Mr Ashcroft's Pine Shop traded here
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Photo Date: July 2008
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... when Cake & Ale traded here
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Photo Date: September 2013
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Number 1-3 of the building with Los Gatos on the ground floor
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Photo Date: June 2019
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Photo Date: June 2015
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In 2015 Nurture Marketing were on the first floor
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Photo Date: June 2015
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Christmas 2016
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Photo Date: December 2016
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Decorative stone work
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Photo Date: June 2015
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Doorway to stairs to the first floor. In 2019 The Eternal Optimist bar were here.
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Photo Date: June 2019
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Name on glass in door
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Photo Date: June 2019
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Name in an upper floor window
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Photo Date: June 2019
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In 2008 the first floor was occupied by Francis George
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Photo Date: July 2008
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Looking up to the decoration on the first floor
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Photo Date: September 2013
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Carved decoration
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Photo Date: September 2013
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Carved stone pillar
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Photo Date: July 2008
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Detail at the top of the pillar
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Photo Date: September 2013
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First floor windows
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Photo Date: September 2013
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Photo Date: July 2008
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Topping off the building
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Photo Date: July 2008
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Photo Date: September 2013
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Detail of stone carving
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Photo Date: September 2013
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At the corner of the building
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Photo Date: September 2013

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