On Sunday 27th from 11am till 4pm at Cliffe British Legion in Morris Road, Reeves are putting on an exhibition of a selection of 40 or 50 pictures of the Cliffe area from the 1870’s to the 1960’s, as part of the Cliffe Independence Day celebrations. This shot shows the Cliffe High Street in 1948. “Notice the railway bridge in the background,” says Tom. Between the bridge and the advertising hoardings was Urry’s Coal Merchants, which later became the Record Shack, which a lot of people still remember. Also notice the Odeon cinema on the left, which was built before the war.” That year the cinema would have shown Michael Powell’s ‘The Red Shoes’, ‘Red River’ with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, and Vittorio de Sica’s ‘Bicycle Thieves’. Reeves have an extensive archive of photos in their collection, which you can browse through at 159 High Street where the business has been running for four generations since 1858.