Gibson Cafe – Bridge Street c.1940
The old Gibson Cafe in pre-war days ...... now it's a modern day pawnshop !
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...
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.
Bridge Street
At a guess, a mid to late 1960s image looking down Bridge Street towards the Town Hall.
Angel Hotel, Bridge Street
Prior to the building of the current day WH Smiths building, the corner of Priestgate and Bridge Street was the site of the Angel...
Meet me at the City !
Saw this superb advertising sign being sold on ebay recently ...... the seller claims he rescued it during the demolition of the old City...
