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Description: | A busy scene in Victoria Street. To the extreme right can just be seen the half-timbered building that was once known as Lindy Lou's (originally known as the Hand Inn). On the left stands Horace George's tailors' shop and the premises of F. W. Woolworth & Company Limited (Woolworths prided themselves on selling inexpensive merchandise, hence the message above the main entrance). Further up the street on the right can just be seen the pointed gables of the Star & Garter Inn. Also, just seen at the top, in Queen Square, is the Empire Palace Theatre (later the Hippodrome). The image helps to depict the fact that powered vehicles (seen here in the form of the lorries and tram) were clearly replacing horse-drawn vehicles at this time. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Theatres Photograph Motor vehicles Photographs Retail shops Streets | Temporal: | [Early 20th cent] | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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