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 in the 1930s
Cumbergate in the 1930s from a vantage point that would today be the Queensgate "Argos" exit. Note the Cadbury's Chocolate advert in the shop...
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...
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...
Westgate Arcade c.1961
A fascinating view from the end of Westgate Arcade looking out on Cumbergate and St John's Church ...... now, of course, it looks out...
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...
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...
Cumbergate c.1902
Looking towards the junction of Cumbergate and Exchange Street. On the right centre of the image is the White Horse Inn and, beyond that,...
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...
