This wonderful collection of photos take us back to the decade of the 1930s.
One picture shows draymen loading the barrels at Yates’s and another of Birley Street lined either sides with cars from the era. An area long gone shows the markets, it’s where the old BHS used to be and the multi-storey car park. They are precious images of how our town used to be.
Roll up, roll up and pay to see starving honeymoon couples inside glass cases in the early 1930s. Those were the days when sideshows made their mark on the Golden Mile. Notice the lamp post placard for the defrocked Rector of Stiffkey, who was also starving - this time in a barrel Photo: Historical