From independent cafes to chain clothes shops and new bars and restaurants opening up it seems Spring Gardens is having a renaissance.
But there was a time when the area was not the shopping hub we know it is today, so take a walk down memory lane and see what it used to be like.
1. 3 - Tourist trap
A thriving Buxton with shoppers and tourists filling Spring Gardens in 1965
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2. 2 - Store for everyone
1920s, The International stores , Spring Gardens, now Lloyds Bank
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3. 4 - Holker Road
Spring Gardens and the bottom of Holker Road in the 1970s
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4. 5 - Queuing for fuel
Queues in Spring Gardens, Buxton, during the 1973 petorl crisis. In one two-year period in the Seventies, a gallon of four star doubled in price to hit 73p.
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