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Market Street, Manchester in the 1930s. Most of these building have since been demolished having made way for the Arndale Centre construc

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Market Street, Manchester in the 1930s. Most of these building have since been demolished having made way for the Arndale Centre constructed in the early 1970s. Only the Rylands building remains. This was built in 1932 as a textile warehouse and was still new when this photograph was taken. . The building was conveted to a department store in 1957 by Paulden’s when their earlier store at All Saint’s was destroyed by fire. The store is now a branch of Debenhams. Another department store can be seen in this picture, that of Henry’s. The clock shows the time to be a quarter to five. Prominent in the picture is the Albion Hotel which housed a Yates’s Wine Lodge. The original Albion was at the corner of Piccadilly and Oldham Street and was demolished in 1928 to make way for the new Woolworth store. The tramcars built in the 1920s were on the routes that operated between Exchange Station and Hazel Grove.

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Back to work after the matinee. Digging remarks from the dancers as I go up the stairs

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London in the fog. A lamplighter at Finsbury Park in 1936.

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Harris, Scrap Metal Dealer. The location is unknown although it is most likely in East London. The image has been digitally colourised from a black and white photograph by Nigel Henderson.

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A barber shop in the early 1950s, probably in East London. The image has been digitally colourised from a black and white photograph by Nigel Henderson.

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Samuel Stores at the corner of Gun Street in Shoreditch, East London. This area became the artillery ground for the Tower of London during the reign of Henry VIII. The land was sold in 1682 and developed for housing. The streets around this area still reflect its former use: Fort Street, Artillery Passage, Artillery Lane and Gun Street. The image has been colourised from a black and white original.

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Buxton Road, Furness Vale in Derbyshire. The pub on the left is The Soldier Dick, named after a 17th century soldier found lost on the nearby moors. The photograph is undated although a little detective work reveals the year and month. There is a sign near the roadside just past the pub. If we zoom in we can see that it supports a Liberal Party candidate Stephen Cawley. He stood for Parliament in three general elections: 1951, 1955 and 1959. Electric street lighting was not installed until 1957 so we are in the later year. The election was held in early October so the photograph was most likely taken in September 1959. Photograph colourised from a black and white original.

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