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A snow-shrouded Corn Exchange on Market Hill in December 1946.
Another view of Market Hill on the same day, this time looking towards Castle Street.
A Luton Corporation bus inches carefully down towards George Street from the Castle Street direction.
The snow keeps falling as traffic negotiates Chapel Street, passing the then Westminster Bank premises to the right.
Police in attendance when a van and car collide at the junction of Stuart Street and King Street in February 1947. Less than 25 years later the old King Street Congregational Church and the Stuart Street buildings had all been demolished.
The harsh winter of 1947 blanketed George Street in snow, but the town still bustled. This view was taken from the Town Hall looking towards the Corn Exchange.
This was the view from the Town Hall balcony.
The snowy scene looking along Upper George Street.
A bus travels in front of the War Memorial and Town Hall as the snow keeps coming down.
And pedestrians and traffic alike make careful progress along George Street.
Armistice Day parade marches from Park Square into Market Hill in November 1936.
Panoramic view of Luton town centre taken from the Town Hall in October 1946 - stretching from the still camouflaged cooling towers of the power station on the left to George Street and the Corn Exchange to the right.
A closer view of George Street on the same day.
A wider view across George Street.
The cooling towers area of the view, with the Grand Theatre visible in Waller Street and St Mary's Parish Church beyond. Waller Street Methodist Chapel, on the corner of Cheapside, is nearer the camera, to the left.
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