Cumbergate Pub Yards
Cumbergate in the 1960s, showing the rear entrances to the yards of the Greyhound and Bell & Oak pubs which fronted onto Market Place.
The Still
The Still public house that used to sit off Cumbergate and now sits at the end of the Westgate Arcade as the Handmade Burger...
Cumbergate Post Office
The city's main Post Office along with postal staff pictured in the early 1900s. The building occupied the site that would today (2019) be...
Cumbergate
Looking along Cumbergate from a location that would now be inside Queensgate with Boots store ahead of you on the right. Date unknown but...
JH Duddington, Long Causeway (c.1900)
The JH Duddington store that sat on the corner of Long Causeway (right) and Cumbergate (left), pictured c.1900.
Edward Law’s Saddlery, Cumbergate
A lovely old image dating to the late 1890s or very early 1900s and showing Indian born Edward Law's Saddlery Shop (centre) with the...
Long Causeway
An Edwardian view of Long Causeway with the Cumbergate junction on the right. Date unknown.
Crisps Wine Shop, Cumbergate – Wilfrid Wood
Crisps Wine Shop, later known as The Still public house, from a 1941 painting by urban landscape artist Wilfrid Rene Wood (1888-1976).
The building survives today...
Cumbergate Almshouses – Wilfrid Wood
The former Almshouses at the junction of Cumbergate and Exchange Street as presented in a 1944 watercolour painting by urban landscape artist Wilfrid Rene Wood (1888-1976).
Long Causeway – Wilfred Wood (1947)
A nice watercolour painting of Long Causeway at the junction with Cumbergate on the left.
The painting dates to 1947 and was produced by urban landscape...
