National - Reeds Garage, Broadway, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire late 1960s
This scene has changed rather a lot over the last fifty years. The garage is now a Tesco Metro - probably the saddest fate of all to befall a garage - and the Gaumont Theatre is now an Admiral Casino. This photo was clearly taken around Christmas time and the suggested date is probably 1968. Here's the same view today www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5751644,-0.241575,3a,75y,180h,9... If anyone is interested there is a film from even further back in time showing cars leaving the garage in a "Buy British Week" which I would speculate would have been in the 1930's www.peterboroughimages.co.uk/brainsbys-garage-on-broadway/ An aerial image can also be seen here showing the full extent of Reed's Garage - it went back from the street quite a long way and had good access from the back. www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/retro/nostalgia-can-you-spot-...
National - Reeds Garage, Broadway, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire late 1960s
This scene has changed rather a lot over the last fifty years. The garage is now a Tesco Metro - probably the saddest fate of all to befall a garage - and the Gaumont Theatre is now an Admiral Casino. This photo was clearly taken around Christmas time and the suggested date is probably 1968. Here's the same view today www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5751644,-0.241575,3a,75y,180h,9... If anyone is interested there is a film from even further back in time showing cars leaving the garage in a "Buy British Week" which I would speculate would have been in the 1930's www.peterboroughimages.co.uk/brainsbys-garage-on-broadway/ An aerial image can also be seen here showing the full extent of Reed's Garage - it went back from the street quite a long way and had good access from the back. www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/retro/nostalgia-can-you-spot-...