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Each year, Computer Weekly announces the women who will be added to its Hall of Fame, a list of women recognised for their lifetime achievements in the technology sector.

This photograph shows the Phoenix public house in Chantry Street, taken by Charles Wardell in 1967. All of the buildings in view were demolished to…

This photograph was taken by Charles Wardell in 1967 as part of a series of doomed buildings and views that were to disappear under the town…

There must be many readers who can recall Baldock’s the tobacconist at 71 High Street. On the opposite side of the street from Marks and Spencer’s, it briefly escaped demolition when the Chantry Centre was built in 1969 but was among a short line of shops that were replaced by modern buildings in the mid-1970s. Up to the last it remained an old-fashioned tobacconist and confectioners, with a diverse assortment of other goods as well. Here, for instance, there are bunches of walking stic...