Dutchman's Blog

I was too young to drink there but the café two doors down from it was one of my favourite haunts in the 1960s. I still associate it with drinking Coke, playing pinball and listening to Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch on the jukebox.

Demolition has already started on the old shops.

…looking towards Gosford Street. All of the ancient buildings in the middle of the picture were demolished between 1963 and 1965 to make way for an extension to the College of Art.