Fond, childhood memories of Newport & Bailgate, & later, the Central Library. The merging will never get old..

Amazing stuff! Just wanted to let you know I come on here every day to watch your videos - you’re always top of my search bar! I find it really relaxing and it also makes me pay attention more to my surroundings when I’m walking around Lincoln. Being able to imagine the past. My family get fed up of me saying “do you know what used to be here?” 🤣

I'm starting to get worried... I seem to be remembering the monochrome images more and more. :D

First I have managed to see and must say I enjoyed it, very impressive 😊

Absolutely fascinating. Really love the pan and zoom. Fantastic job 👏

Fabulous.

Does anyone remember the excellent Berardi's, an Italian restaurant aboove what is now Caffe Nero? There in the 70s/80s maybe later. The entrance was in the alley

Me and my grandparents lived here for 5 years around 2005. Beautiful house, I was only 13 at the time but was terrified as my bedroom was just down the hall from the chapel inside the house. I use to run down the hall to the bathroom every time as I was so scared! Amazing now reading all the history behind it.

What was that building with the horse and carriage in front

Now that was a shame, they demolished 2 buildings of merit and replaced them with buildings of almost no merit at all

Was that an old Black Mariah police vehicle on the right of one picture?

always makes me feel deeply sad.

I really enjoyed that..well done.

Absolutely superb 👌

Wonderful Work and much appreciated as always, many thanks

Superb it’s as if you’ve been transported back in time .. particularly if you remember some of the old buildings !!!!! 😊thanks again for going these time shifts because It must be very time consuming. Many thanks

How long before technology sees people moving around in the photos.. l have seen a couple of AI generated images bringing people back to life?

Lovely 💕 For me the still image at the end of each pan could be a bit longer, you have no time to take it all in.

Lol, a few years back my morals were put sorely to the test in Boots in Lincoln. I'd got a large pack of razor blades. There were no shop assistants at all in the PAY HERE section and I couldn't get the self-service till to work. Very annoying! I was sorely tempted to just walk out the store with them and make a quick getaway round the nearest corner. But my conscience got the better of me and so I put the blades back on their shelf and departed empty-handed. But whenever I read that supermarkets are having a lot of trouble with stuff being stolen because of self-service tills I always think to myself 'Serves 'em right!'

Lincoln born and bred I lived on the Ermine Estate East and it was my home for almost 30 years. My first ever job when I left school was an apprentice at Ruston Bucyrus, so for me this was a trip down memory lane

Really well done 👏. Just superb.

This one is really good, and the music

Doesn't it look so much better and make it easier to walk without them awful 70s brick planters getting in the way up the high street.

Thank you for that! Wasn’t the corner shop next door to the old Boots Laura Ashley once? And more recently Pandora?

Noticed the Currys sign

Fond memories of signing on the rock n roll in the 90s.

I remember the revolving door, the lift operator who always seemed to have a fag going, there was a big ashtray for customers in the corner of the lift, and I also remember the lending library where my Mother would get her books. (she probably also used the ashtray). I'm also trying to remember whether there was a restaurant on the top floor but we never used it if there was. Perhaps someone else will remember.

According to the book 'Shops and Shopping in Lincoln: A History' published by The Survey of Lincoln in 2018, Boots moved from there in 1973. Interestingly, it mentions that when the building was constructed in the 1920s it was agreed with the council that it be set further back than the old building to enable wider pavements, also that the corner would be at an angle instead of square on so that people could more easily negotiate the corner.

Interesting, I didn't know Monos had been elsewhere before Skellingthorpe road

That sure was one, hideous structure, imo.😳

Not exactly an improvement. 1960s planning has a lot to answer for!

Straight out of Charles Dickens… you can imagine Bill Sykes bullying people in there or the Pickwickers making merry .

Brilliant videos and photos great to watch,i have been looking for photos or film of Rainbow milk bar 341 high Street Lincoln and spotted cow milk bar 17 saltergate Lincoln around 1957 ?

Benefit.. not Truefit (as I guessed, yesterday).. don't remember that name, although I wasn't around in the '50s. Very fine, old photo. 'Belisha beacons were named after Leslie Hore-Belisha (1893-1957), the Minister of Transport who, in 1934, added beacons to pedestrian crossings.. '

I only realised from watching yesterday that Boots has moved to the other side of the High Street! What is in the old Boots premises now? I remember as a child being horrified coming down the stairs because I had hooked my umbrella over the handrail and let go. It went shooting down towards the hand of an old lady much further down, but she took her hand off just in time for my umbrella to shoot past her - how embarrassing 😑

Absolutely brilliant and the Morris minors just made it even better !!!😊

There appears to be be a building site lower left.. ??

I would have been 2 too! But I didn’t come to live in the area until I was 7 (Waddington then, North Hykeham later) I remember the pedestrianisation being done and fantasizing about rollerskating all over it, which I never did. I don’t have any memories of what it looked like before, so this is an amazing time slip for me. I agree that the area looks so much better now, it makes the buildings stand out so you can enjoy them rather than them disappearing into a long anonymous high street (apart from the Stonebow of course)

Truefit shoe shop? And is TFE 70 a Series 6 Morris Oxford?

I must find time to check out the old bus museum down whisby road

My friend eric johnson used to drink white lightening under the bridge .

I’ll be two years old when the old picture was taken and have many happy memories walking up town with my mother in the sixties and being fascinated by the double decker buses going through the Stonebow … barely enough clearance 😂

Binks for bikes…

My great grandad was cheif there

where did you find those old street level photos?

A business I'd completely forgotten. Wonderful to read the history. For a gas leak, maybe open a window & quickly evacuate, rather than strike a match.💥

Impressive John, well done

Has to be the southern-most pub I've ever visited, within our fair city. Not quite the "Yer not from 'round 'ere, arr ye?" that I got from people in rural Norfolk but not far off. Venturing further south, The George Hotel (Leadenham) never disappointed but closed 1-Dec-2021. What the fudge!?

I also remember Nugents, but had forgotten them until I saw your pic 😊

Thankyou for that great picture of the Plough, haven't seen that one before !