Bonchurch Road

This row of housing built c.1980s replaced the Sunny Bank Laundry.

Tagged as: Elm Grove, Laundries

Image: (c) Carol Homewood

I need to research this more but from what I remember there was a fire that destroyed it during the 1970s.

Also known as: Sunny Bank Laundry

Date of photograph/s: 2015

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During the 1890s this building served as a laundry, originally under the name of G.P.Murfin.

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Chloe Bullock

March 21, 2021 at 7:26 pm

I think I sent you photos of the fire Carol …do you still have them?
Half of it was Sunny Bank and the other half was spectacle frame factory.
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