Talbot House Ministries bought the former Salvation Army women's shelter in Winter Haven, which was forced to close in February. The ministry has plans to reopen.
Compared to other areas in town, Leicester Road was quite late in being developed with West End Villas, a pair of three-storey semi-detached villas, opposite Aldi car park being the first houses to be built around 1880.
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