EDITOR – After many years I had reason to visit a medical specialist in Musgrave Road and had to drive from St Thomas into Musgrave Road, which is now a one way road.
I lived in this once pristine upmarket area, which often reminded me of England, with its beautiful old houses, architecturally beautiful churches and tree lined roads where the branches created a tunnel with the branches from opposite sides touching one another. That’s in a sense what was the image in my mind only to be totally disappointed. I parked in the vicinity of the where the Anglican Church is and walked down the road.
The first introduction to urban decay was the strong smell of urine as I passed Grants Grove and then the taxi rank with loud music and even witnessed a taxi being washed on the road. The area is really run down and that saddened me so deeply that this once sought after upmarket area has been neglected to this extent.
The area is not short of vagrants at every corner and beggars to the intersection and when I chatted with the receptionist she informed me that at night these vagrants sleep on the pavements at the entrances of the business premises along the road. I can only imagine how the property values have been affected by this decay.
I really didn’t believe that this would one day happen to this once beautiful suburb.
D Boardwin
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