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John Howlett says
Has anyone any idea of the date of this picture?
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.
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