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OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

Good morning -Moving onto roll 25, and only three picture that are new on this roll everything else are copies off roll 23 and 24.
To start we have the Crown Pub corner of Broad Street and King Edwards Place, the first picture is taken in the 1920's, large factory building at the rear, number of staff out on the pavement, ladders up at the windows cleaning in progress. Crown Inn established 1781, so a pub has been on the site for many years.

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we now move onto 1930's there have been a number of changes , the brickwork has been plastered over and there is new large lamp on the corner. There are a number of window styles on the frontage and the building is much large than it is today. Hard to imaging that a walk down King Edwards Place would lead to the Convention Centre, much where the building at the rear is today.

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We now move onto the 1940 and the build much as it is today, light coloured wall, balustrades around the roof line, and frontage which has not only had the windows changed to match the others but the building is smaller in size too. It looks like the building at the rear has disappeared, I don't think it has been blocked out. This is pretty much how the building looks today

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If you mean the one in 1622. and the building with chimneys, then it was part originally, of the crown brewery attached to the pub. I think it was the malthouse, but not certain of that
 
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