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).
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.
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...
Miss Pears Almshouses on Cumbergate
Miss Pears Almshouses on the left with Cumbergate heading off to the right. The Almshouses housed Topo Gigio pizza house right up to 1996...
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...
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 Traffic
Chaotic scenes on Long Causeway with Cumbergate in the background ..... today the site of the "Boots" Queensgate entrance.
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...
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...
