Historical version 14 of Costa Coffee, 129-131 North End (view current version)
Business premises on North End. It's been vacant since at least May 2012 (the previous occupant was a shoe shop called Soletrader).
In October 2012, Costa Coffee were granted a planning application for a change of use "from A1 (retail) to a mixed use (A1/A3) coffee shop". As of mid-March 2013, shopfitting work has started inside, and posters in the window photo confirm that it will be a branch of Costa.
According to a photo on Flickr, as of c. 1981 the premises were occupied by a clothes shop called Coles. According to another photo on Flickr, by c. 1985 this had been replaced by a shoe shop called Top Men (see also a photo from December 1990).
The occupant as of December 2011 was a shoe shop called Sole Trader (or possibly Soletrader or Sole|Trader) photo. This had closed by May 2012, with the premises boarded up photo and advertised to let. In November 2012, Sole Trader opened another branch a little further along the street at number 72.
North End
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OS X co-ord:
532193
OS Y co-ord:
165915
(Latitude:
51.376380
Longitude:
-0.100426)