Kettering, High Street c.1960
Photo ref:
K13066
More about this scene
This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street. Boots were to move three times, epitomising the changing importance of different parts of the town centre. Here, they have a new building, which had replaced the Pavilion Cinema a year earlier, which they share with Civic and Victor Value, a small supermarket. The late Georgian building next door still has the plaque-like spaces for advertising between the windows on the first and second floors used by Webb Bros in 1910. Halfords, the cycle shop, had to compete with at least three other cycle retailers. They sold bikes on hire purchase at 2/6 a week.
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