Today that area of the city is a rather bland bit of land which only really serves as a cut-through from City Walls Road to The Shambles and High Street. But there was a time when it was an enclosed square, a vibrant and happening place where rather a lot did happen.
But you don't have to go back that far to find a bit of bustle. Take a look back at some more recent faces and stories. Do you remember and of them?
And how about Tallow Hill? That really did see a massive transformation towards the end of the 20th century. Take a look at some of the pictures and see if they jog a few memories.
There's the chance to share more recollections on our We grew up in Worcester page on Facebook. Why not take a look?
The T&M Butler team showing off some of the bakery’s fare for an advertising feature in December 1990. Do you remember using the bakery?
Worcester’s Public Hall was built on the north side of the Cornmarket, on the side of the old Wheatsheaf Inn. It was eventually demolished in 1966 to make more room for car parking
This picture comes from July 1995 and shows Peter Averis with the clock he restored after finding it in the tower of Old St Martin’s Church
It’s December 1983 and the cast-iron lamppost in the Cornmarket is being removed to make way “for traffic improvements”
A moody and impressive, but sadly undated study of the lamp at the corner of the Cornmarket
November 1981 and traders are trying out their new stalls arrangements in the Cornmarket after their move from Angel Street
October 1978 and there was a bit of head-scratching as to why a small crop of cabbages had been planted outside the public toilets in the Cornmarket. Best guess at the city council was that some over-eager gardening enthusiast had spotted a space left
Holtham’s shop in the black-and-white timbered building was a familiar feature for many years. This picture was taken in 1984
“Charles II” during the 1987 reenactment of the close of the 1651 battle. There were calls a couple of years later for a statue of the king on horseback to form a focal point in the new pedestrianised Cornmarket
October 1985 and Worcester Wine Cellars was a new kid on the block. Did you ever pop in to pick up a bottle or two?
November 1991 and bakers T&M Butlers are celebrating their first anniversary in the city
AS IT NEVER WAS... Worcester resident David Palmer’s vision of a boulevard and meeting place, complete with fountains, drawn in March 2004
September 1976 and Peter Lewis, owner of Acton’s Chemist looks on in dismay at the work going on outside his shop
This picture was reproduced in the Worcester News and Times in 1958, looking up Mealcheapen Street, and was printed long before the Public Hall had even been built, far less demolished
You’d hardly recognise the place... the Cornmarket in October 1976, pictured looking south-west
December 1987 and The Royal Exchange has had a makeover, and was now known as Oliver’s Bar
A view across Tallow Hill before redevelopment work began
HERE'S another of Worcester's pubs that has gone but is not forgotten. In fact after this photograph of the boarded up Beehive in Tallow Hill was taken in 1991, the place re-opened under landlord Phil Sadler and became a very decent live music venue.
Tallow Hill nostalgia
The Tallow Hill retail park beginning to take shape in September 2002
It’s November 2002 and work is almost complete on the new bridge over the canal at Tallow Hill, part of the £16 million St Modwen redevelopment scheme
July 1976 and mechanical digger driver Lawson Wall is pictured with a tombstone he accidentally unearthed while levelling a children’s play area
It’s September 1980 and the city council has come under attack from the National Playing Fields Association for one its children’s play slides, dubbed by users “Death’s Drop”.
Now THAT’S a sinkhole... this hole in the road appeared over the space of 24 hours in September 1983
A family of swans glide serenely past construction work in September 2002
Sajid Riasat, from Worcester Muslim Welfare Association, showing Eckington CE First School pupils a flag decorated with Arabic script of the first pillar of Islam during a school visit to the city mosque in March 2005
A rather sombre discovery was made by the Clark family children, Stuart, aged five, Andrew, six and Kimberley, nine, who uncovered a gravestone while playing in Tallow Hill car park in June 1990. The gravestone’s inscription read “Abigail,
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