Perhaps only the bandstand (itself now removed) provides a clue as to where this is, as everything in front has changed. This photograph was taken in the 1950s by the late Robert Vincent from the top floor of the Swan Court flats, looking out across the Vigo Road Recreation Ground. The top half of a lamp-post in the foreground marks East Street which then ran in a straight line from its junction with Vigo Road, down past the United Reformed Church, the Manse and the Georgian office buildings still extant today. Behind the lamp-post is a landscaped area and in the centre of the picture is the bowling green. Beyond that was a small putting green before reaching the path that ran alongside the bandstand, which was soon to become an aviary. Today’s recreation ground only begins at the point where the bandstand stood and it is startling to realise how much ground was lost when the large roundabout and underpass was constructed in the 1960s. Recent plans have hopes of removing th