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Southgate Street, GLOUCESTER, GL1 1TG

The jewellers H Samuel and Baker's side by side on Gloucester's Southgate Street.

This timber fronted building above a Costa Coffee on Southgate Street in Gloucester dates from the mid 17th century.

The figures of the animated clock in Southgate Street represent an Irishwoman, John Bull, Old Father Time, a Scotsman, and a Welshwoman.

Southgate Street - a spectacular 1904 clock above the door of Baker, watchmaker. The bells are struck quarterly by Old Father Time, John Bull, a Scotsman, an Irishwoman and a Welshwoman. www.visitgloucester.co.uk

An attractive set of bell ringers representing the four nations of the UK and Old Father Time in the centre

Taken from the tower of the cathedral - the prominent tower of St Michael's is central to the main streets of the town, with Robin's Wood Hill the larger tree-covered hill.

St Michael's Tower is on the corner of Southgate Street and Eastgate Street.

Built in 1664-5 (despite a date of 1650 carved into a first floor fireplace) for Thomas Yate, an apothecary. In the late 18th Century it was owned by James Lee, a tobacconist and bluemaker (i.e. maker of blue dye for whitening clothes) who painted the façade blue to advertise his trade. Other subsequent occupants were James Taylor, a grocer and brandy merchant, in the 19th Century and a Mar Clark, tea merchant, around the turn of the 19th/20th Century. It is perhaps fitting therefore that the building is currently occupied by the coffee chain Costa. Grade I listed - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271748.