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1. Burton St.
2. Sherrard St.
3. Leicester Rd.
4. South Parade
5. Market Place
6. Nottingham St.
7. Now & Then
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South Parade & Town Centre gallery
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Description: A wonderful view of the town centre taken from the church tower. The Market Place is on the right, and the building facing it on the far right is now WH Smiths. The group of buildings to the left of the market was known as the Barnes Block, and demolished in 1966. The three-storey building in the centre of the photograph is the newly-built bank.
Approx date: 1910. Image ref: MM0401.
Description: A view along South Parade towards its junction with Nottingham Street and High Street. The soldiers' uniforms indicate it was around the time of the First World War. The shop on the far left is Brownlow's Chemists. The Brownlows – father and son – played a significant role in the development of Melton, and both Brownlow School and Brownlow Crescent are named after them.
Approx date: 1915. Image ref: MM0402.
Description: A very early view along Cheapside from South Parade. Today, Boots Chemists would be just beyond the men on the right. The group of buildings on the left were known as the Barnes Block. They were demolished in 1966, more than doubling the size of the Market Place.
Approx date: 1870. Image ref: MM0403.
Description: A view along Cheapside towards Leicester Street in the distance. The group of children are standing outside Brownlow's Chemists. (Behind them today would be Boots Chemists.) To the right is Garners Ironmongers, with its outdoor display of spades and watering cans. They came here in the 1870s, but it had been an ironmongery since the 1740s.
Approx date: 1890. Image ref: MM0404.
Description: A view up Cheapside towards South Parade. Today, the man on the left would be walking past Boots Chemists. Behind him is W Essom & Son, the leading grocers of the time. The buildings on the right are part of Barnes Block, which was demolished in 1966, extending the Market Place.
Approx date: 1900. Image ref: MM0405.
Description: A view along South Parade towards Market Place. On the left, JW Warner was a stationer, bookseller and printer, and like WH Smith and Boots, had its own library (see sign). The large group of three buildings alongside were built at the turn of the 19th century. On the left is the Leicester Boot Company, and then W Manchester, general furnishers.
Approx date: 1905. Image ref: MM0406.
Description: A view along South Parade, with Cheapside to the right, and the Barnes Block in the centre. Taken from a top window of the bank on the corner of Nottingham Street, this clearly shows the size of the Block. Its demolition in 1966 more than doubled the size of the Market Place. Note also the cobbled-stone surface to the streets.
Approx date: 1900. Image ref: MM0407.
Description: A view along South Parade towards the Market Place, with Cheapside running off to the far right. It shows the well-stocked shop windows of Warners Stationers and the Leicester Boot Company. At this time, the attractively gabled building on this side of the Barnes Block was occupied by Gills Motor Garage. It later became Gills Ironmongers.
Approx date: 1910. Image ref: MM0408.
Description: An early view along Cheapside towards the Barnes Block on a typical Market Day. On the left is the Bell Hotel. On the far right, Attenburrows the Chemists have recently moved into their new shop from their previous premises in the High Street.
Approx date: 1880. Image ref: MM0409.
Description: A view from the top of Leicester Street towards the Market Place. The building on the left is the corner of the Barnes Block, occupied W Bowley & Co., Jewellers and Opticians. And on the right, W Rowell & Sons, boot-makers to the gentry, and later to the Duke of Windsor. The impressive building behind the Market Place is Warners Cafe, now occupied by Thomas Cook.
Approx date: 1910. Image ref: MM0410.
Description: The south-side of Market Pace, from the direction of Leicester Street, on a busy market day. The building on the right was once the Swan Inn, the town's principal inn. It gained fame after drunken revelers painted it red, launching the phrase 'painting the town red'. At this time the upper rooms were owned by Adcock and Pacey's, the town's main brewers. And the shop fronts by gentlemen's outfitters, W Pearce & Co.
Approx date: 1900. Image ref: MM0411.
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