Posts for Strand
Befores and afters … Bude shop fronts
Been looking through some images from my Bude books and I especially like these which give some sense of change … any memories or any of your photos welcome …
The Strand
The Strand in the 1900s. The new Globe Hotel and the building housing the bookmakers are newly erected and the Post Office occupies the left hand end, where The Nat West bank was until recently. On the right, part of Hockin & Hooper’s old warehouse still stands and, on the […]
The Strand
I can’t tell you a lot about the subjects of this picture, other than that it is a group of kids exercising between the drill hall and the masonic lodge in the late 1920’s but I don’t know what the occasion was. In the background are the original Wroe’s shop, […]
The Strand
Wroe and Biggs electrical shop in the Strand in the 1920s. This occupied part of the block where the Premier Inn is situated now.
The Strand
The Strand in 1920. On the left, the Grenville Hotel is still 10 years away from having it s west wing added and the Lloyds Bank building and the Post Office have not yet appeared. On the right, where the Premier Inn is now, is a collection of small shops […]
The Strand
The Globe Hotel and buildings which now house the bookmaker’s in about 1920. The left hand section, until recently the Nat West Bank, was Bude’s main Post Office; next to it Wise’s chemists, which later became Boot’s chemists, Wonnacotts Wholefoods and is now the bookies.
The Strand
The end of the Strand and the Triangle In about 1920. On the left, the parish hall was the main meeting place for the town; next to that is the Norfolk Temperance Hotel, sitting on a Lansdown Road with gardens in front of the houses on the bakery side. What […]
The Strand
The Strand in the 1910’s. The Grenville has not yet gained its additional wing and the Lloyd’s Bank building has not yet appeared with the Granville Tea Rooms overlooking an area of grass at the bottom of the Triangle. The south end of Leven Cottages was being used as a […]