Wade Street in the 1950’s. These were taken at a time when Wade Street joined St. Johns Street to Bakers Lane. The small child in the photo is standing outside the Lord Rodney public house at number 70 Wade St, now the location of the...

The address in St John Street had remained empty for sometime before Gilmores opened. The location was registered for use as a beauticians from 2002 with the last being Pretty Nails and Beauty. In the late 1990’s the location was...

The Frog Lane Boys’ school was initiated by Dean Woodhouse with supported by subscriptions and by donations from the Conduit Lands trustees in 1803. The brick building in the photo is thought to be designed by Richard Greene, a...

Over the years it has been the location of a furniture store, several building societies, estate agent and pop up calendar shop. The latest to move in is restaurant and bar Barhaha which opened in 2019.

Long since disappeared from the High Street the MEB was a place to pay your electricity bill and purchase all the white goods you could dream of.

Opened in the old Poundworld store in August 2019. 

A complete new look will be given to the old Mountain Warehouse in 2019 ready for the opening of the new local branch of the Nationwide Building Society. The move forms part of the building societys branch transformation programme.

The old Cathedral Gift Shop was called ’The shop at Number 9’ and was located in the Cathedral Close, opposite the west door of the cathedral.The Gift shop moved to it’s new location in the shopping centre in October...

The Old Crown was a coaching Inn dating back to the early 1700’s and extended part way up the shopping precinct.  The Inn closed in 1983, and unfortunately the grade II listed building fell down during refubishment work. The Inn...

Royce womens clothes shop opened in the 1960’s in Market Street.