Old Images of Leominster , Herefordshire

Old photo postcards of Leominster in Herefordshire, England.
Includes old images of the High Street and Broad Street, with a couple of close ups for more detail.
Mark Crombie has uploaded more than 10,000 old postcards to flikr. You can visit his amazing collection at: www.flickr.com/photos/1476459...
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Broad Street looks so lovely without all the cars and with the trees. Every old photo of the town looks better before car dominance. One day…

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We didn't have a car when I was a child, and looking back it was probably very tough on my mother carting children and groceries around the streets before walking to an evening shift of manual labour. But in a street where hardly anyone had a car, it meant we could all safely play ball games outside, with the biggest danger being the muck left by roaming dogs. The same street looks very cluttered now with all the vehicles jammed in, and the children are nowhere to be seen.

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@@localhistoryvideos UK kids now are being shown that to “stay safe” is to stay indoors or be inside a 2-ton SUV. Holland got it right prioritising safe streets over cars giving children early independence-what they lost from car dependency they regained, we just lost…