John Howlett says
Has anyone any idea of the date of thispicture?
It is a view from St Wulframs Tower looking south.
Castlegate is running diagonally from the bottom left towards the top middle of the picture with the Guildhall faintly discernible on the skyline. Castlegate House and Middlemore House can be seen along with the original buildings that were between but have since been demolished. The Malting on Welham Street is on the extreme left near the top of the picture but just to the right is a tall chimney type structure that seems to be on East Street. What was this?
In the foreground is the National School and beyond this the backs of the terraced houses on the north side of Bluegate; we also see the roofs of the houses that were on the south side of Bluegate, before they were demolished.
Elm House is the prominent detached building on the right of the picture and it still has its gardens intact (now a Grantham Estates car park).
The buildings running across the middle of the picture between the south side of Bluegate and Elm House are the outbuildings of the Angel Hotel that housed the horses and waggons of their patrons. Interestingly, if you look towards the left end of these buildings, in the middle of the picture, there is a barn type structure with a curved roof that seems to be filled with straw or hay for the horses. These buildings have long since vanished under another dreaded car park.
I reckon’ 40s’ lookat that horizon’ hill & holow way! & check out the chimney? too the left? & too right of it is a bust o smoke! looks like the trees but cant be? Might be! be interested with answer tho’ & ded to left & above of chimney & guild hall must of bee Alma Park buildings I guess? & that roofline aside of chimney? Guess the maltings as noted? & I would say its looking East?? Dunno! be good answer tho’
The chimney is at the Urban Electricity Supply Company’s works on East Street, which opened in 1903.
Thanks’ Sam I , not sure if I can remember it mate? & that I thought was smoke ‘ tis a tree!must o been a big un Sam’ Pleased & honered to see these photo’s every week! I Havant one photo of my own mate! & think I have now because I save em on PC when in office’ & often when others gone just tek a snek at em mate! I dunno how often you look but one that did bring lump to my “throat” dunno why? & still if I look! Was the one of traffic stood on Somerby Hill? Dont know why at all? Just teks me back mate? in black n white but perfect? dunno why mate?
You suffer from the same thing as I do you old duffer, You remember Grantham when you were young, and life was far simpler than it is today.
Good times at the Long Bar……….A few bevvies in the Chequers, A stroll around the fair with a lass on your arm, all these and a thousand other memories make us what we are, and that is no bad thing.