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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

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

Guernsey & Jersey via Weymouth poster, about 1891

In 1889 the GWR began operating a steamship
service to the Channel Islands. This poster shows
the GWR's TSS Ibex, leaving harbour on its route
across the Channel. This early poster is very
elaborate compared to the GWR's later designs

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Holiday, Travel, Victorian

Cheltenham Spa (Malvern Road), Gloucestershire, 2 May 1959

A view of Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road station in Gloucestershire, on 2nd May 1959. Locomotive number 31619 is passing through the station and a lone woman is walking along the platform.
Cheltenham Malvern Road station opened in March 1908 and closed to local passenger services in 1960. The station finally closed to all passenger and freight services in 1966

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