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Prior to the building of the A55 dual carriageway to Bangor North Wales and the opening of the Dee bridge at Connah's Quay, the road shown used to be a major though heavily congested route from Manchester and Liverpool into north Wales coastal resorts. It is now downgraded to a B class road.
©Dennis Turner
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©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.3km<br/>A pair of semi-detached houses, built in 1883 and renovated in 2003. The grapes are over the arch of the front doors.
©Eirian Evans
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©David Quinn
Dist:0.3km<br/>Small retail park just off the A56
©Eirian Evans
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©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.4km<br/>View NE, towards Chester: ex-LNW Chester - Holyhead main line. The 15.10 Manchester Exchange - Bangor is headed by Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 No. 45448 (built built 1937, withdrawn 8/67).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.4km<br/>Shotton township expanded rapidly with the establishment of John Summers steel works on Dee marshes.
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.4km<br/>View westward, towards Llandudno Junction, Bangor and Holyhead; ex-LNW Chester - Holyhead main line. The locomotive was Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 No. 44863 (built 1945, withdrawn 5/67). (Shotton High Level was on the ex-GC Bidston - Wrexham line, which is seen crossing on the left).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.4km<br/>View westward, towards Shotton station, Llandudno Junction and Holyhead: ex-LNW Chester - Holyhead main line. The 15.25 Summer Saturday from Llandudno was due at Leeds City South, via Manchester, at 17.50. The locomotive is Stanier/Ivatt 5MT 4-6-0 No. 44772 (built 5/47, withdrawn 10/67). (See also [[[2716843]]]).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.5km<br/>This image, taken from Shotton Upper Level Station, shows the railway track along an incline towards Hawarden.
©Ceri Thomas
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©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.5km<br/>Located on both Nelson and Jubilee Street's. The Grosvenor is 1 of 2 social clubs in this square, the other being Shotton Lane Social club.
©David Quinn
Dist:0.5km<br/>Former station hotel adjacent to Shotton High Level station, former Great Central Railway.
©al partington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Shotton High Level railway station is on the Borderlands line between Bidston and Wrexham.
©David Quinn

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