New Street (view 44) (E.G.Tasker's : 1)
E.G.Tasker's photographic supplies shop in 1960, at 36 New Street. It had two large glass display windows and a central entrance way. Notice the Kodak 3-dimensional sign over the entrance and the typographer reflected the early 1960s design era. The modern-looking shop was in housed in a much earlier building, Tasker's functioning from 1948 here, prior to the widening of Park Row, in 1963. The shop was located next to the Elephant Hotel building, and between Rawood Row and Park Row, but was soon to be be lost under the new road road widening scheme, replaced by a new purpose-built shop: see 'Barnsley Streets', vol.2, pp.90-91. The early Sixties was a time when there were many changes to the appearance of Barnsley, many buildings demolished and new ones erected. It was in this context that we owe so much to Ted Tasker in recording Barnsley's urban and commercial history via his own initiatives and camera and by his lifelong collection of images of the town. What has also made the Tasker Collection so unique in Britain is the meticulous way in which he researched and recorded the names and businesses of each occupant, a huge undertaking that now forms the basis of the magificent Tasker Photographic Trust's archive of images and searchable database that is of international importance.
New Street
File Number: EGT821
Tasker Trust