Old Coldstream and Cornhill

From the Introduction
...Many of the villages shown here saw much sharper falls in population, and the loss of village services such as shops and schools. Today, many of the villages are fortunate to retain a shop or pub, necessitating trips to Coldstream or Berwick. That was not yet the case when the bulk of the images in this book were made, from the late Victorian period to the 1920s. Here we see crowded school photographs, village streets with shops and inns and curious bystanders, as well as the bustling streets of Coldstream. But in some later pictures motor cars begin to appear, harbingers of a different kind of society. Particularly in the form of the motor bus they made travel much easier for ordinary people across the area: for work, for shopping, and, not least, for pleasure. It has been suggested that the provision of bus services allowing young people from local villages to experience the pleasures of the cinema or the dance hall in Berwick accounted for a twentieth century boom in cross-border marriages!...

Author: John Griffiths
Publisher: Stenlake
Extra Details: Pictorial Card Covers 10 x 7 inches tall, Lavishly illustrated with Old B&W Photos throughout.