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Pictures From The Past – August 30

Welcome to this week's collection of nostalgia photos from the pages of the Shropshire Star.

Published Aug 30, 2019

Newtown High Street is changed forever. It's January 1965 and a demolition team was tearing into these houses in the centre of the town. They were 16 and 18 High Street, and were coming down in a road widening scheme to make a better access to a special car park for the National Eisteddfod at Newtown the following August.

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