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Like this description from the Visit Shrewsbury website: "As you may have guessed from the name, this street was once where the towns butchers would ply their trade. Before the days of refrigeration, one can barely think about the pong that must wafted down the street during one of our hot Shropshire summers! "On holy days when aldermen went to meetings, there was a rush to find the best line to walk. Against the buildings was the safest bet where they would protected from any materials that may have been thrown from the upper floors into the streets. The worst place would have been the middle of the street where all the sludge would have accumulated."

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This pre-dates the Aberystwyth Cliff Railway (Rheilfordd y Graig) (built in 1896), a funicular railway which goes up Constitution Hill ('Consti') on the headland at the far end of Victoria Terrace (the row of sea-front houses). But apart from some later quarrying into the hillside near where the railway is now, and of course the bathing machine and the people in the foreground, this scene has scarcely changed. Compare it with a similar shot used on the Cliff Railway website (www.aberystwythcliffrailway.co.uk/).

Brilliant Picture

Apart from the Cliff Railway not a lot had changed by 1962

Was not expecting a photo on this Bank Holiday Monday, well done "Overtime Mary" and on top of that there is at least two Dogs 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕

Men in "Sunday Best" at the crossroad, and Ladies on the pavement.

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A Happy Easter to you and all your loved ones. Stay safe and well!