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Eastgate Street, Chester, c1890s

This image comes from a Photochrom carriage print used by the Great Western Railway in the late 1800s. The picture shows a view of the historic timber-frame buildings in the centre of Chester, along Eastgate Street.

© STEAM Museum of the GWR

1890s, 19th Century, Architecture, Carriage Print, Cheshire, Chester, Eastgate Street, Photochrom, Publicity, The Rows, Timber Frame, Victorian

Chalford, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, June 1937

A GWR Publicity view of Chalford, in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, June 1937. With the distinctive pattern of settlements in the Frome Valley, this large village near Stroud is filled with whitewashed cottages and small mill buildings that provided the area with a thriving cloth industry.

© STEAM Museum of the GWR

1930s, 1937, Chalford, Cotswolds, Cottage, Frome Valley, Gloucestershire, June, Mill, Publicity, Spring, Stroud, Summer, Village

Swindon Town Station

Swindon Town Station was on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway in Swindon's Old Town area. The impressive main offices of the railway company can be seen in the centre of this image. The station was in operation for only 85 years after facing increasing competition from the town's GWR station and as the focus of the town moved away from the Old Town area to Swindon's ænew town' which had developed around the GWR station and railway works.