Captions
83 captions found. Showing results 41 to 60.
Trebilcock's shop is displaying the well-known brand of K shoes and boots.
The historic Grade II listed clock that overhangs the A25 was brand new when this photograph was taken.
Note the unfenced playground equipment, and the little box on old pram wheels that so many children made, so typical of the time.
It is Saturday in Kingston Market Place, and swarms of shoppers have descended to see the fresh produce on offer that might supplement the wartime rationing that was still in force.
The railway is the only rack railway in Britain, and runs for just over four-and-a-half miles from Llanberis to Snowdon Summit.
R84037 (page 34) is a reminder of how our streets were once filled with a profusion of tobacco advertisements - Capstan, Player's, St Julien, St Bruno, Gold Flake, Senior Service - hardly any famous brand
The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand.
Next-door, the International Tea Company`s Stores Limited has re-branded itself as the International Stores, and would remain a major grocery chain until the coming of purpose-built supermarkets
Next-door, the International Tea Company`s Stores Limited has re-branded itself as the International Stores, and would remain a major grocery chain until the coming of purpose-built supermarkets
This building at Hazelwood was brand-new when the photograph was taken.
The railway is the only rack railway in Britain, and runs for just over four-and-a-half miles from Llanberis to Snowdon Summit.
The welter of advertising and shop display signs along the left-hand side of the street bear close examination.
On the left are Timothy Whites and Taylor's, a chemist chain, then the Corn Exchange.
The Grand was almost brand-new, and the Royal was rebuilding.
By 1899 we see that the old two-storey bay window of the Cock Inn has gone, to be replaced by a new shop front installed by Mr Fairburn, who had moved his chemist's and druggist's business
Cove's London Hotel (centre left) is now the Moorish Wine Bar, and J H Easterbrook's Boot and Shoe Warehouse (left) is now two separate businesses.
This photograph shows the Cannon Street end of King William Street, which heads south-east from the Mansion House towards London Bridge.
This photograph shows the Cannon Street end of King William Street, which heads south-east from the Mansion House towards London Bridge.
The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial
Then, there were 36 boys, including 8 boarders, and the Headmaster was G J Poole, MA.
