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Market Place East from left to right - the Crown Hotel, W H Harrison Printer and Stationary and a partial view of the Unicorn Hotel. The Crown Hotel closed two years after the photo was taken and became Croft and Blackburn motor works in 1908. In 1977 it was converted to the supermarket, Morrisons, and in 2018 is Sainsburys. The wooden Crown Inn sign has survived and is installed inside the rear entrance of Sainsburys. Harrisons shop is in 2018 The Works and the Unicorn Hotel survives, now owned by Weatherspoons.
We use a high resolution 50 mega pixel Canon camera, mounted on a Guardian stand, which allows us to capture A0 plans comfortably without losing any clarity or definition. Plans larger than A0 are digitally stitched using Adobe Photoshop by experienced reprographic staff. Images are captured at a minimum resolution of 300dpi as TIFFS using Phase One capture software.
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Free postage and packing on all photograph orders.
Digital copies will be sent by email.
