Description:
Player Street looking east with Osborne Street coming in on the left. Player Street derives its name from tobacco and cigarette manufacturers, John Player and Sons, part of whose No 1 factory is on the right here.
Picture the Past is grateful to website contributor Chris Jackson for identifying both the location and probable date of this image. He also adds:
'My great-grandmother Kirk lived in a house on the left, about at the end of those we can see. Opposite was Player's fire station, just this side of the bend in the factory. The corner shop has since closed and been adapted as a private house with the shop door bricked up. In terms of dating the image, the No 6 cigarettes in the advertisement above the door were introduced in 1965 but some of the parked cars look later, while the safety notice is typical of the sort I remember from the early 1970s and was probably painted by Long's.'