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I have a lifelong interest with the Ordnance Survey. As a child I made sure I was outside the house where I live (Argyle Road) for when the bugle from the barracks would sound the end of the working day. Shortly after a soldier would walk down Northbrook Road wearing his uniform. I was always puzzled by the garters he wore. Over the years of course I got to know people working at the survey. I married one who at 17 decided to leave Wales and join the survey. A few years ago my daughter [was] driving us along Derby Road when I mentioned “The Rope Walk” situated at the bottom ...

WINDSOR, ONT. -- New life could be coming to an old neighbourhood in Windsor’s Walkerville. The wheels are in motion to revive the shell of a burnt out building on Argyle Road left in shambles after a 2018 fire into an 81-unit apartment complex. “This is exactly the kind of growth that we want to see in the community,” said city councillor Rino Bortolin. On Monday, the city’s Development and Heritage Standing Committee approved a three-year tax break for the property under its brownfield tax assistance and rehab grant program, saving the Market Square owners who purchased the pr...

Rose and Thistle A pub has joined a list of important protected venues in Reading, celebrated for their community value. The Rose & Thistle pub, on Argyle Road near Reading West Station, has become an asset of community value (ACV), joining 10 other sites currently on the Reading Borough Council (RBC) list. Recent additions include The After Dark nightclub, which was granted ACV listing in December and The Hop Leaf pub gained the status in October. Once a building is added to the list, it must be used to further the social wellbeing or social interests of the local community for a fi...

Article content An 81-unit apartment building is being planned for a historic Walkerville industrial site where everything but the brick facade of the front office building was destroyed in a ferocious 2018 fire. “The residents are really looking forward to something happening there,” Ward 4 Coun. Chris Holt said Tuesday, describing how neighbours to the former Gelcell Capsules plant at 1370 Argyle Rd. have been “looking at a burned-out mess for quite a long time now.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Destroyed factory to morph into 81-...