Thirsk, North Yorkshire 1981
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A lively 1981 view across Market Place in Thirsk, with the long row of parked cars turning the cobbled market area into an improvised car park beneath darkening skies. Prominent buildings include the Three Tuns Hotel at centre, the red-brick frontage of Frank Jones on the left, and the large blue-painted Freeman Hardy Willis shopfront on the right, while Appleyard’s can also be seen further along the terrace. The foreground is full of everyday early-1980s family cars, including a red Ford Escort driving past and a tightly packed line of hatchbacks, saloons and estates, giving the scene a strongly period feel. Together the old inns, shopfronts and crowded market-side parking capture Thirsk as a busy North Yorkshire market town before later changes to traffic and retailing.
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