Photograph of 160-168 High Street, Winchester
Taken about 1934
The north-east end of Winchester's High Street was (and to some extent still is) characterised by eighteenth century frontages which often disguised earlier origins. This image with its crowded shop windows and a fine array of parked cars shows the buildings which were demolished to make way for the Hants and Dorset Motor Services Omnibus Company's station which was opened by the Mayor in June 1935.
Jones' restaurant, Nash's tobacconists, Perry's hairdressing business, the newsagents Cusworth's and Arthur Taylor's fruiterers all lost their premises, some of them swiftly relocating to other addresses in the city. Only the nineteenth century building with its bay windows and the corner of St John's Rooms are recognisable in 2008; the Crown and Anchor, which lies between them, was rebuilt in a different style in 1935.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer F B Heathcote Wride.
