Buxton, Spring Gardens 1923
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With increases in both population and numbers of visitors to the town, provision had to be made for their shopping requirements. Although there are shops in higher Buxton, on High Street and the Market Place, the major commercial centre is Spring Gardens in the lower town. Originally known as Town Street or Sheffield Road, it was developed into a busy shopping street selling, among other things, tourist gifts. Here you could buy ornaments made of Blue John, Ashford Black Marble and Derbyshire Spar - locally mined stones which were worked in the Petrifaction and Spar shops. The number and type of shops in Spring Gardens has altered greatly over the years but the architecture on either side remains largely unchanged. An increase in traffic through the street led to calls for pedestrianisation which was completed in 1997.
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