James Gray: This short road is seldom photographed, but here are two [jgc_31_039 and 040] showing scenes at the lower, eastern end, between Guildford Street and Buckingham Street. A good display of hardware outside Massey Bros. Oil and Italian Warehouse, at No 10, in the days when it was safe to leave these items unattended. Thought to be about 1902. jgc_31_039
James Gray: The shop continued to be used in this trade uninterruptedly for many years, and was still so when this photographed was taken on 11 June 1974. It was then styled Polden Hardware. The large corner property was then threatened with demolition – hence the taking of this photograph. Nothing happened, until in 1988 it was renamed Guildford House and converted to bachelor flats. At least we have been spared another block of offices. jgc_31_040
James Gray: Again, a photographic copy of a rather indistinct drawing of the central valley from West Hill. A few years later than that above [see jgc_31_045] for Trafalgar Street has been bridged. The chimney of Regent Foundry can be picked out, also St Nicholas Church (far right) and above the cornfields, parts of the old Workhouse buildings on Church Hill, removed in 1866. jgc_31_046