Old Gloucester
It’s difficult to put a precise date
on this photograph, but we
think it was taken sometime in
the late 1900s.
It is a picture of Oxbode Lane,
better known today as
The Oxbode.
This lane was demolished in the
late 1920s when The Bon Marche
was extended from Northgate St
to Kings Sq.
The camera is looking west
toward Northgate Street.
The ‘Bon’ was founded in 1889
by Mr John Pope and was, at
the start, a small drapers shop
on the corner of Northgate and
Oxbode Lane. It is now owned
by Debenhams.
Nothgate Street, Gloucester. This card is interesting because St. John’s Church spire is still intact.
It is date stamped 1917 and was sent to a soldier stationed in Weymouth
which would account for it’s poor condition as he probably keep
it in his pocket.
Old Gloucester. The photographic nostalgia site