City Cinema
1962 -v- 2008
The City Cinema opened on Bridge Street in 1927 and was hugely popular with its own in-house orchestra to accompany what were...
Church Street
A lovely image showing Church Street, with the Vine Restaurant on the immediate left, all decked out in readiness for Queen Victoria's Silver Jubilee...
Cattle Market
The Cattle Market that was sited for many years on the site where today's non-cattle market is based - albeit still on a road named...
Bull Hotel c.1900
A flock of sheep being herded away from the nearby Cattle Market with only the Bull Hotel on the right making sense of the...
Theatre Royal, Broadway 1910
The Theatre Royal opened in 1894 and was further developed to embrace cinematic entertainment in 1910, subsequently renamed in 1916 as The Grand and...
Broad Bridge Street
1915 -v- 2009
The town bridge end of Broad Bridge Street with the entrance to Hill's Yard just behind the lampost. Sadly that entrance is...
Bridge Street in the Seventies
1973 -v- 2008
Despite now being pedestrianised, all of the buildings remain intact 35 years downline with the gap in the original image now filled...
Broad Bridge Street
Looking back along Broad Bridge Street from close to the river bridge early in the 1900s.
Prior to the first river crossing being built, the...
Coronation procession in Bridge Street
A procession to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary on 22nd June 1911 and photographed from an upper floor of...
Bridge Street
c.1971 -v- 2009
Although some modernisation has evidently taken place, most of the original buildings were still holding their own 37 years downline.
