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A Window on the Past
Memories of Market Street
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1. Garratt bakery 1908 - 1963 2. Garrett bakery staff C1957 3. Rumbelows electrical goods 1969 1996 4. Long & Son 1907 - 1970/71 5. Frisby's 1912 - 1987 6. Sadlers 1935 - 1979 7. Market Street in the 1960s 8. Benefit Footwear 1931 - 1973 9. Focus Television Rentals 1974 - 1976 & Bon Marche 1934 - 1986 10. Royce clothiers (Now Oxfam) 1964 1973 11. Pricerite (now Iceland) 1976 - 1980 12. Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum, also showing Melias grocers 1927 - 1966 13. Market Square in the 1950s 14. Market Street C1905
Market Street, has been a place that Lichfeldians have headed to for a spot of shopping for hundreds of years. It has only been known as Market Street since the middle of the 18th century. In the 14th and 15th centuries it was known as Robe Street and Saddler Street, and today you can still buy clothing, leather goods and much more on this bustling thoroughfare.
Thank you to local history group ‘You’re probably from Lichfield, Staffs if’ for these fantastic pictures of Market Street over the past century.
For lots more pictures, photographs and stories visit the Facebook page ‘You’re Probably from Lichfield, Staffs if’ or pop along to their next meeting taking place on Tuesday 2nd August, 7pm – 10pm, at Lichfield Social Club, Purcell Avenue, WS13 6TS. For more information contact 01543 416393 or 01543 268842. Images and captions provided by ‘You’re probably from Lichfield, Staffs if…’ from sources including the excellent book by J P Gallagher - Trades of a City. Published by The Lichfield Press in 2006. Other editorial sources include www.britishhistory.ac.uk
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