Back when busy High Wycombe road had a cinema
This week for Then and Now, we are in the Desborough Road area of High Wycombe.
This first picture from around 1920 is looking north east at a view of crowd, mainly children, outside the Grand Cinema at 260 Desborough Road.
The building now houses charity Central Aid.
And now:
Looking west from close to junction with West End Street, this picture from April 1969 shows shops on the north and south side of the road.
And now:
BFP archive pictures courtesy of Sharing Wycombe’s Old Photographs - swop.org.uk
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