Long Causeway & Cumbergate
Long Causeway at the junction with Cumbergate which would be the "Boots" entrance to Queensgate shopping centre today. The building far left still stands...
Gibbs Shoes – Cumbergate – 1954 Advert
A 1954 advert for Gibbs Shoe Shop on Cumbergate which includes a rather bizarre looking Pedoscope X-ray machine !!!
Cumbergate in the Sixties
The White Horse pub on the left c.1962, looking back towards what is now the Queensgate Centre entrance with The Still just beyond the...
Coltons Cycles, Cumbergate (1969)
Thanks to Rob Sharman for a photo he took in 1969 showing Coltons Cycles which were on Cumbergate at the time.
Looking over to Hereward Centre
A view from outside Colton's Cycles on Cumbergate and looking towards Hereward Centre in the distance with the ground being prepared for the Queensgate...
Cumbergate, Pepper’s Store c.1912
Based on Cumbergate opposite the General Post Office, Pepper's Store was a shoe/boot maker and repairer. Tough to picture this one today but you...
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...
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...
Cumbergate Post Office
The magnificent post office building on long lost Cumbergate. The city's first post office was in a small premises on Priestgate but this much...
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...
