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Bridge Street looking east from the Market Place

Bridge Street
Newark on Trent
England

This is a view taken in 1963 of one of the road entrances to the Market Place ��� Bridge Street. On the left G H Porter's Grocery Store (still there today) in a building which is believed to be about 250 years old. For much of its history, before it became Porter���s grocery shop, it was occupied by successive generations of the Ridge family, booksellers and printers, who bore the distinction of printing Lord Byron's first two collections of poems ���Fugitive Pieces��� in 1806 and ���Hours of Ideleness��� in 1807.

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