Hill’s Yard c.1912
You won't be surprised to hear, from this image, that Hill's Yard branched off Broad Bridge Street in close proximety to the banks of...
Hill’s Yard in the Sixties
Looking back towards Broad Bridge Street from what is the now the very sterile Rivergate shopping complex.
Golden Lion Hotel c.1907
Built in the late 1700s, the Golden Lion sat at the end of Narrow Street where it met Bishops Road. It later became Murkett's...
Gibson Cafe – Bridge Street c.1940
The old Gibson Cafe in pre-war days ...... now it's a modern day pawnshop !
City Cinema
1962 -v- 2008
The City Cinema opened on Bridge Street in 1927 and was hugely popular with its own in-house orchestra to accompany what were...
Broad Bridge Street
1915 -v- 2009
The town bridge end of Broad Bridge Street with the entrance to Hill's Yard just behind the lampost. Sadly that entrance is...
Bridge Street in the Seventies
1973 -v- 2008
Despite now being pedestrianised, all of the buildings remain intact 35 years downline with the gap in the original image now filled...
Broad Bridge Street
Looking back along Broad Bridge Street from close to the river bridge early in the 1900s.
Prior to the first river crossing being built, the...
Coronation procession in Bridge Street
A procession to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary on 22nd June 1911 and photographed from an upper floor of...
Bridge Street
c.1971 -v- 2009
Although some modernisation has evidently taken place, most of the original buildings were still holding their own 37 years downline.
