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[g4aaw pete]

Fremlin Walk, Earl Street, Maidstone.

Shopping centre built on the site of one of Kent's oldest brewery.

 

 

 

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[brickie58]

Should have been named wobblin walk

[krag96]

That's apparently one of those British things I don't understand.  Would someone explain this to me?  Only thing I can figure is, you park behind the building from a different street and walk out to this street?  Maybe a good four pint Guinness breakfast will help...

[g4aaw pete]

Ah, the carpark is under the shopping centre. You can see the pedestrian exit. Climbing the stairs on the right, visitors may peruse the wonderful shops above.

Alternatively, stepping outside the centre into Earl Street, one can visit the many bars and restaurants there.

 

We don't bother, of course!

Our fine dining includes a bacon roll at McDonalds once a week.

[krag96]

Ah, the carpark is under the shopping centre. You can see the pedestrian exit. Climbing the stairs on the right, visitors may peruse the wonderful shops above.

Alternatively, stepping outside the centre into Earl Street, one can visit the many bars and restaurants there.

 

We don't bother, of course!

Our fine dining includes a bacon roll at McDonalds once a week.

 

Now you've got me wondering if there's a different world down there.  They made something like that for a place called, ''Strawberry Square'' in the city of Harrisburg, about 25 miles from me.  There are passages under there that lead past an old part of the city that was buried well over 140 years ago.  You walk past buildings whose doors and windows  have been under ground all that time.  Some of them are still used by  tenants of the complex in the upper part who have access to the sub terainain world of the 1880's when they regraded the street to handle a subway for the traffic while the railroads maintained an even grade.  In short, some people and business's in the 1880's lost street access to the entire ground floor of their buildings to the regrading plan.  When they tore down the old buildings 100 years later for the Strawberry Square complex, they left some of the lower parts of the old buildings there, most though were dug out.