This was one
of the last slides my father took so was unlabelled and undated.
However, I was lucky enough to be contacted by a chap called Daniel who
lived in Chichester. Inspired by my past and present pictures of Birmingham, he had gone and done the
same for Chichester to add to his town history.
As I looked at his
fantastic transition images, the one of South Street showed the
cross and I now knew where it was! The clue for the date came
from a black and white print of Chichester Station that was also in the
collection.
I'm pretty sure the picture was taken from West Street looking east as
it appears that the street sign on the far right says South
Street. It's now hard to believe that roads ran so close to the
cross as the area is now (very sensibly) pedestrianised.
There is some history
of the cross on Wikipedia.
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