Bedford, High Street 1929
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81740
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At the top of the High Street, the photographer looks south. The Lime Street/Lurke Street junction is beyond the Swan Hotel's handcart. The Midland Bank with its Ionic half-columns was demolished in the 1970s; the replacement building is now a pub called The Banker's Draft. Barclays lies beyond, also in the stone-faced dignified classical dress beloved of 1920s bankers. Most of the High Street buildings survive, but without the splendid Victorian and Edwardian shopfronts. The Bear, modernised about 1900, also remains, its glazed tiles now painted.
An extract from Bedford Photographic Memories.
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