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Description: | A view looking towards Darlington Street from Queen Square. The premises of Philips & Jones the house furnishers, the Electric Theatre, the National Provincial Bank of England Ltd (now Natwest Bank) on the junction with Exchange Street, Hemming the fruiterers and Altham's tea stores can be seen to the right. Also to the right is the Prince Albert Memorial, erected to commemorate the visit of Queen Victoria to the town in 1866, and the public conveniences. In front of the statue stands the town fire escape. In the bottom right hand corner is the horse-drawn cab rank. To the left stands the Board Inn. The image shows various types of transport including the passenger trams, an early motor car and horse-drawn vehicles. The presence of the trams and the motor car helps to depict the change from horse-drawn to powered transport that was taking place at this time. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Photograph Photographs Banks Buildings Streets | Temporal: | [Early 20th cent] | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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