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...
Cumbergate
1897 -v- 1908
Hard to imagine that beyond the Long Causeway entrance to Queensgate was once Cumbergate, a short L-shaped road that followed the current...
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...
John Bruster – Wine & Spirit Merchant, Cumbergate
A wonderful list of alcoholic beverages from 1879 with a gallon of "very old" scotch whisky retailing at just 20/- or £1 !!!
Lincolnshire born...
Cumbergate 1903
Cumbergate, looking towards what is now an entrance to the Queensgate Centre. The furthest building on the left would sit above the Queensgate end...
Long Causeway
An Edwardian view of Long Causeway with the Cumbergate junction on the right. Date unknown.
Cumbergate (c.1910)
An old and battered image of Cumbergate around 1910.
Cumbergate c.1902
The old 1835 built East Almshouses just prior to their demolition in 1903 and subsequent replacement by current buildings courtesy of a £5,000 legacy...
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...
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...
