I don't expect anyone remembers Northbrook Street from the 1890s do they??......   (thought not)

What about 1910?   Anyone?

BRILLIANT!!  

one more then.....   The Lock Stock and Barrel (or whatever it was called then) is the building on the left.  Photo taken in 1878.

Excellent pictures, I wonder whatever happened to the lamps on the waterbridge. Melted for scrap during one of the wars I guess.

There's a bit of a story to the first picture in that there is a sign floating in the sky put up by Mr Hill who I believe was a tailor. It caused a furor on the council but there were no planning rules as such and so it stayed there for quite a long while. Postcards of Newbury generally had the sign blanked out before the cards were printed.

Lovely pictures of old times in Newbury......It was certainly more crowded then that it is is nowadays

This is a very similar picture only on a postcard which has been hand tinted and is dated 1900'

an 1890 job again   (black and white... for that authentic feel)  

Any idea what the 'HILL' advert was for?  Fags?

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Any idea what the 'HILL' advert was for?  Fags?

See my earlier post.

The pub on the left, I assume that's what it is, must sell some ale as every picture has beer barrels either on the pavement or in a dray waiting to be unloaded.

When I lived in Newbury, Northbrook St (and other roads and streets) were very busy with vehicle and pedestrian traffic.

When did it Change and what does it look like now?

After Northbrook Street was cobbled and while they were doing the same in the Market Place, the town Market moved to Northbrook Street. This photograph was taken on 13th July2006 from the waterbridge looking North as were most of the previous photos.

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The pub on the left, I assume that's what it is, must sell some ale as every picture has beer barrels either on the pavement or in a dray waiting to be unloaded.

That is about the right location for the Anchor PH, on the corner of (now pedestrianised part) Northcroft Lane - now Starbucks coffee house. I recall that the outside facing Northbrook Street was covered in dark green tiles, and there was outcry when these were removed.

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I recall that the outside facing Northbrook Street was covered in dark green tiles, and there was outcry when these were removed.

We have done this on the old board, but it's worth a second go. Here is the history of the tiles.
Photo 1 taken in 1911. No tiles
Photo 2 taken in 1928, Tiles have appeared
Photo 3 taken in the 50's Tiles still there
Photo 4 taken in 1999. Retiled with cheap tiles (from Wilkinson's ? ?)
P.S. The top floor has also been removed by 1999

So, the original tiles were not that old, post 1911, so probably fitted about 1918 after the great war. Because the building society were asked/told to replace them, they were replaced on the two facades. Nothing like the original so when these tiles were removed by Starbucks, they really had no historical value.

What has been lost is the novelty factor, if not the historical.  The other thing of course, if nothing is allowed to get old, then we would have no historical artifacts anywhere.

The green tiles still looked nicer than the current facade, however one might nitpick about their age.  They gave the building some individuality.