Shefford, North Bridge Street 1951

Photo ref: S378007

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Once an important market town, Shefford was blighted this century by through traffic; its central T-junction was a bottleneck until the town was recently by-passed. Here we look south down North Bridge Street towards that junction with High Street. On the left is Porch House, a heavily-restored 16th-century house, now a bank, with the pavement passing through its ground floor. To the right is W Caton & Sons, Wine and Spirit Merchants, as it says in faded paintwork on the gable of this 1881 building.

An extract from Bedford Photographic Memories.