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This next couple of pages are devoted to the western side of the view from the Broadwalk has been completely reconstructed since 1998. At the southern end viewed from the Town Square an L shaped steel structure was being erected (September 1998). This was to be the new college building (see some pictures of the construction) replacing the old campus which has been demolished, to make way for the new college and supermarket. Beyond this the remains of the former Police Station and Magistrates Courts of 1918 and Broadway House (Barry Parker 1914). Just how much of each remains is difficult to tell at the beginning of the work, but the facade has been retained as part of the new building. A new Morrisons supermarket was being built on what was the main town centre car park and here are a few pictures of the old buildings at an early stage of the work. 
Demolished except for the front facade and northern side wall 
A few weeks later the steel structure starts
going up
Two
contrasting view from the northern tip of Broadwalk
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