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mariew

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I bought these two photos from an antiques fair, they may have been posted before, but I will post them just in case they haven't, they show New Street from the town hall and from high street in 1895, I think they are lovely all the horse and carriages and the beautiful street lamps.
 

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They are lovely pictures but they haven't come out as well as I thought, I could make them bigger.
 
Mariew, what a super find. Similar ones have been posted before but not those I think. Christ Church is still on the corner by the statue and would be for a few more years. I think these would be contemporary with the one of the Old Wharf showing the canal basins and in the distance the church spire. Well done.
 
I love the way that copper is walking down the middle of the road, I'd like to see him do it there today.:lol:
 
Frothblower I couldn't agree more he is so clear, I only wish I had bought more of these photos, but there were that many people there I just got them and got out of the crowd, I can't stand crowds.
 
Who noticed the guy riding shotgun on the back of the Beer Waggon ?
Frothblower .......?
 
The antiques fair was at coleshill town hall or it may have been at drayton manor park,if I remember right, I go to quite a few I like to mooch through all of the old stuff.
 
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