Layton has always retained its own identity. With Westcliffe Drive running through the centre, it has its own shopping centre and still has rows of shops either side of the road.
Buildings which are long gone feature in a couple of the photos, but they show how Layton has thrived in its own right through the years.
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Built in the mid 18th Century, Layton Hall was situated on the corner of Collingwood Avenue and Hollywood Avenue. It was demolished in 1927. The gate posts were moved to the south entrance of Stanley Park
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Westcliffe Drive1925. The bungalow on the right is the Layton Working Men's Institute, on the corner of Lynwood Avenue. In March 1926 the institute moved across the road to a new purpose built building.
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Windmill Hotel, around 1963
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Talbot Road, Layton at the junction with Peel Avenue in 1969.
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The new Layton Institute opened on March 9 1926 at a site on Westcliffe Drive opposite the old club. The cost of the new building was £10,000.
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Westcliffe Drive,1914. The proprietor of this shop on the corner of Onslow Road was J Ingram. The house further along the road with the half-timbered lookstands on the corner of Norwood Avenue .The first Layton Institute would soon be built on the corner Lynwood Avenue between these buildings.