Market Gate, Friday 10 August 1973

 Future titles

Buttermarket Street,  Horsemarket Street and the old Market Place are likely to be covered in future volumes, and possibly the Palmyra Square district. However, there are no more titles planned this year.

 Lyme Street, Monday 13 August 1973. The mall entrance is now here as seen in the picture below.


Entrance to Golden Square mall on Sunday 25 March 2012

 
Buttermarket Street, looking towards the Britannia, Thursday 10 August 1972


Similar view of Buttermarket Street on Sunday 25 March 2012. No buses now, but we have skitttles!


Looking the other way up Buttermarket Street on the same day, 25 March 2012. The exact angle of the picture below, taken 40 years earlier with the same camera, is not possible now because of the presence of four large skittles!


The same section of Buttermarket Street on Monday 21 August 1972. The No 2 Orford service is about to depart from outside the Lower Angel


Looking towards the Odeon, Buttermarket Street on Sunday 13 June 1993


A similar view taken on 20 September 2009 showing the Looking Glass


Looking down Buttermarket Street towards the Odeon on Thursday 4 August 1994, before the street was pedestrianised


Close up of the Odeon, Buttermarket Street on the same day


The Britannia taken with a box camera in Auguat 1974. The cranes behind are busy starting construction of New Town House, incorporating the Britannia's short-lived replacement pub.

 
The old theatre on Scotland Road which became the Regent cinema then the Tudor Bingo hall. Photo taken on Thursday 29 August 1974. The theatre was demolished to make an extension to a car park.

Academy Street, including Joseph Priestley's house, demolished for the new Academy Way. The site is now occupied by the closed Kwik Save. Sunday 16 July 1972


On Buttermarket just beyond Academy Street were the Salvation Army citadel and Ward's model shop. Photo taken in the summer of 1975

 
Horsemarket Street, on a quiet summer Thursday, 20 June 1974

Looking up Horsemarket Street, with the Hop Pole on the right. Beyond the Hop Pole are a number of Georgian properties which were demolished for the Hatter's Row shopping centre. Thursday 13 June 1974

Looking into Cheapside, Monday 21 August 1972. Old market hall on the left.

Lyme Street, on a quiet Thursday 10 August 1972


Market Place, Thursday 20 July 1972. Still quiet.

Rather busier on a Friday, 10 August 1973

Shops in Market Street on a Thursday afternoon, 13 June 1974

Arpley Street police station before it was cleaned. Do they ever use all those flagpoles? In the foreground is my bike which got me around for all the photography. Sunday 5 August 1973

The urn in Queen's Gardens before it was smashed. In the background you can see the new Bold Street church going up. Sunday 14 April 1974


Bold Street Methodist church being stripped of its panelling before demolition. Monday 2 July 1973


The replacement Bold Street Methodist church and offices, photographed with the same camera. Sunday 25 March 2012

Looking out of the cemetery gates towards the Good Companions, formerly the Cemetery Hotel. September 1976


The Dissenters' chapel early in 1996. This interesting little building with patterned slates has now been demolished, destroying the architectural balance of the cemetery. The RC chapel was demolished a few years earlier.

The side streets looked so different without cars, road humps, litter, etc. These are views of Steel Street in 1974, taken with an Agfa box camera