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OK so here goes and the first one up, we travel back to 1907 and pop over to Boston Spa, nr Wetherby in Yorkshire. A lovely scene!
This postcard can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6yq55ep
From Boston Spa, it is a hop skip and a jump over to Wooler, in Northumberland for a view of their High Street in years gone by. Lovely vintage car in the street there!
Click this link to go to the listing for Wooler High Street http://tinyurl.com/63qn5e5
From Wooler we will travel a lot further south and visit Winchester in 1915.
Winchester High Street, c1915 can be found at http://tinyurl.com/66cu6vn
As you can see, High Streets can be very different! How about a more modern one, let's go forward from 1915 and land in Rayleigh, in Essex in 1969.
The listing for this Rayleigh card is at http://tinyurl.com/5tqhtzm
Streets seemed so deserted didn't they - even in 1969! Not always the case though - take a look at High Street in Solihull, in the 1950s!
Let's scoot off north of the border now, here is a lovely framed effect postcard of the High Street in Carnoustie, Angus c1915 (love the seashells!!)
From Carnoustie in around 1915, let's do a massive leap down to Bognor - landing in the High Street during the early 1900s, narrowly missing being run over by that lovely vintage car!
We need to be a bit more careful if we are not going to cause a traffic accident - let's slow it down and visit the High Street in Uttoxeter, back in the 1920s:
Another framed type effect was given to this vintage card of the High Street in Swanage in pre 1918 days:
For our last visit to a High Street in years gone by we will land in Rugby, c1905 - not much traffic here to get entangled with!
I hope you enjoyed our trip down the High Streets of yesteryear - there are over 40 in the store as I write this; I will try and update this blog if and when any of the above are sold so that you don't get taken to dead links, but apologies if this happens before I can amend the blog!
If you would like to see ALL the vintage cards of High Streets click this link: http://tinyurl.com/65ynpxm
As ever, thanks for looking at my blog - I will continue to try and update it each month. If you wish to see the FULL index for all vintage cards in our store (it's a long list!!) here is the link. Scroll down till you come to the country/county/state of your choice.
