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20 photos of Broadmead from 1950s, 60s & 70s
These photos of Broadmead from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s show a shopping area at once familiar and unfamiliar, with some long-forgotten shops and other views which have barely changed other than pedestrians have now replaced cars on many of the roads:
Merchant Street looking towards The Horsefair, 1950
Merchant Street looking towards Fairfax House and Broad Weir, 1971
Merchant Street looking from Broadmead roundabout to The Horsefair, 1967
Broadmead looking towards Nelson Street, 1973
Broadmead looking from junction with Union Street towards roundabout, 1953
Broadmead looking from junction with Union Street towards roundabout, 1955
Broadmead looking towards Odeon Cinema, 1955
Broadmead looking towards Odeon Cinema, 1958
Broadmead looking from roundabout to Nelson Street, 1970
Corner of Broadmead and Union Street, 1955
The Horsefair looking towards junction with Union Street, 1968
The newly built Union Street Bridge, 1953
Corner of Fairfax Street and Fairfax Court, c. 1960
The Haymarket with Lewis’s department store under construction, c. 1955
New Boots premises, Broadmead, c1955
Lewins Mead roundabout with Broadmead Baptist Church in the background, c. 1970
St James Churchyard with Lewis’s in the background c. 1965
Looking towards St James Barton roundabout, c. 1965
Aerial view of St James Barton roundabout, c. 1972
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