Nice photos Phil I remember it well Photo 1 1954! the cars look later than that the one looks like a Bedford van.
Photo 2 I wonder where that was taken it looks like the Rotunda but I don,t think it was built in 1962.
By the side of Marks & Sparks in the late 1950s there were 3 shops at the Carrs Lane end can anybody remember their names I think the middle one was Dororthy Perkins the one nearest M&S was a posh fur shop (we were always down there repairing the Neon Sign) it was ------and Wells but i,ve been trying to recall the name but cannot maybe someone out there put my mind at rest. Dek