When Queensway was Queen's Road East. We have seen in the Harrison Forman photos from 1940-41 of the blocking-up of pillars of ground floor buildings due to the threat of aerial bombing. I surmise the high walls of the building on the left was for this very reason.
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Date picture taken
1951
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