Torwood Street Torquay - 1956
Torwood Street in Torquay in 1956, looking down towards The Strand and harbour. The Old Market Inn can be traced back to the mid-nineteenth century and is now called The Clocktower. The grand Neo-Baroque style building, then occupied by Torquay Motors Ltd, is now Grade II-listed. It was intended to be a theatre, but this never came about and it was in use as a shopping arcade from around 1910. The buildings are very much the same today, but the road traffic and vehicles have changed somewhat!
This scene was taken on a Kodachrome transparency by the late Reginald Easton of Burwood Park, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, whose photographic collection was bequeathed to my parents upon his death in 1967.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use these images without my explicit permission.
Torwood Street Torquay - 1956
Torwood Street in Torquay in 1956, looking down towards The Strand and harbour. The Old Market Inn can be traced back to the mid-nineteenth century and is now called The Clocktower. The grand Neo-Baroque style building, then occupied by Torquay Motors Ltd, is now Grade II-listed. It was intended to be a theatre, but this never came about and it was in use as a shopping arcade from around 1910. The buildings are very much the same today, but the road traffic and vehicles have changed somewhat!
This scene was taken on a Kodachrome transparency by the late Reginald Easton of Burwood Park, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, whose photographic collection was bequeathed to my parents upon his death in 1967.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use these images without my explicit permission.