I initially assumed that this tree was one of the sturdy trunks currently festooned with Christmas lights, but the picture below shows that there is still a rather spindly tree in the same position (although it is hard to be sure). The photo above is nearly one hundred years old. Perhaps the original was replaced?
The first photo of the top of Broad Street was taken just after an old building had been knocked down to build the new Spence's papershop. The old shop still stands on the right. Presumably they built the new one then demolished the old. That happened, I think, in 1930.
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