Weymouth in Old Postcards and Photographs

Upper St. Albans Street

One of the Town's more interesting streets, and one of the oldest although not always known by it's present title, the photographer has his back to the seafront and is looking towards St. Thomas St.

Many small shops which even today still offer the usual tourist gifts, there was a shop with a magnificent coffee grinder in the window
and the aroma was fantastic.

To the left of the man in the road was a far more exotic shop, which was known by all as 'Dirty Dicks' and was infamous
with all teenage boys for the 'Glamour' magazines, etc. known to be available within.

Or so I was told!

More recently it was a toyshop

The furthest of the two wall signs on the right was for 'The Vanity Fayre' gift shop and the nearest sign 'Players Please'
has of course disappeared in these politically correct times as it advertised John Player cigarettes