Images Dated 2020 March

Cheap Street, Frome, August 1929

A busy view looking north west up the picturesque Cheap Street. The original street dates from the 1500s and still retains its historical charm. The building on the left is the Flora Cafe, with other cafes, bookshops and grooming salons lining the street

© STEAM Museum of the GWR

1920s, 1929, Cafes, Cheap Street, Frome, Pedestrians, Shopping, Shops, Somerset, Street

Lyme Regis, August 1936

Hundreds of holidaymakers are enjoying the shingle beach at Lyme Regis. The beach is lined full of huts. In the distance a stretch of coastline known as the Spittle can be seen. It is part of the Jurassic Coast and rich in fossils. The famous fossil hunter, Mary Anning, found an ichthyosaur in the Spittles in the early 1800s

Tetbury, c.1920s

A view down the Chipping Steps, a medieval street in Tetbury. A young boy sits on the wall of one of the old weavers cottages. At the bottom of the steps a horse and cart can be seen on the Cirencester Road

© STEAM Museum of the GWR

1920s, Chipping Steps, Cottages, Gloucestershire, Tetbury