Cumbergate
Looking along Cumbergate with the White Horse public house on the right.
Thanks to Chris Allen for this image.
Cumbergate (c.1910)
An old and battered image of Cumbergate around 1910.
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 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.
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).
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.
Long Causeway
An Edwardian view of Long Causeway with the Cumbergate junction on the right. Date unknown.
Traffic on Long Causeway (1960s)
Traffic gridlock at the Long Causeway/Cumbergate junction in the 1960s.
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 Post Office (1974)
The magnificent old Post Office building in Cumbergate pictured in 1974 and shortly before its demise. Today it would pretty much be under the Boots...












