Workman at the end of Cowgate preparing for the building of today’s major roundabout.
Category: Cowgate
Cowgate Shoppers
CE Thomson & Co., Cowgate
Cowgate Graveyard – Wilfrid Wood (1945)
A wonderful watercolour painting of the top end of Cowgate and showing the old graveyard.
The painting dates to 1945 and was produced by urban landscape artist Wilfrid Rene Wood (1888-1976). Wood was born in Cheadle Hulme near Manchester but moved to Barnack in 1937 after which he was responsible for some superb paintings of both Stamford and Peterborough.
Cowgate Roundabout
Crescent Bridge Opening (1913)
Cowgate Roundabout
Cowgate (1940s)
Cowgate (1977)
Blue Bell Inn, Cowgate (c.1900)
38 Cowgate Revealed (2014)
Thanks to Ed Jones for this fascinating photo of 38 Cowgate.
Ed comments, “I work at Kall Kwik, just over the road from Topo Gigio on Cowgate. Yesterday, 12 November 2014, the frontage of the building 38 Cowgate, formerly DV Nails, was removed as they have moved and exposed a Millets sign and decorative framework, it’s still visible today although the framework has been covered up now, it only looks temporary.”
A 1940 trade directory show that Milletts traded from this address and information on the Milletts website suggests this was one of the very first Milletts stores in the UK.
Rogers Store on Cowgate (c.1912)
Cowgate on Market Day (1962)
The Falcon, Cowgate (c.1975)
Crescent Bridge (c.1913)
The road in the foreground is Cowgate (right) leading into Thorpe Road (left) which up until just before this photo was taken (1913) would have taken people across the dual-gated Crescent Crossing. The horse drawn carriage is coming out of Station Road with the Crescent Bridge builders sign still present behind it. The Cleveland Bridge Engineering Co., Darlington is still a thriving business in 2014 !
The Great Fire of 1956
Cowgate (1974)
Cowgate
“Werner’s Own” Leaving for War (c.1914)
A poignant image from the Great War days showing recruits walking in good spirits down Cowgate towards the railway station on the first leg of their journey to the home front. The recruiting office was in the background, just off Market Place and these men were all colleagues from Werner, Pfleiderer and Perkins on Westfield Road, renamed shortly after the war to the more familiar Baker Perkins, and became known as Werner’s Own Regiment.