Even in the few years since we started taking a few photographs in our home town, Princess Street has changed.  It is located fairly close to the town centre and seems to be constantly re-inventing itself to adapt to the ever expanding Swindon.  The latest (current) changes involve a new development called Kimmerfields (which has already changed its name from Union Square even though building work hasn't even finished yet!).

A photograph on Flickr taken in 1968 brought home to us the changes are not a new thing to Princes Street - take a look at the  Photograph  and you will see just an ordinary row of terraced housing with perhaps the only sign of its central location being a road sign to a car park.

During the very late 1960s and/or early 1970s we remember the housing being demolished and shiney new offices being built.  From memory, a large building for Nationwide Building Society had an impressive entrance with water surrounding it and a bridge across it to the front door - the water had live goldfish swimming in it.  We don't think the fish lasted long as we remember it then being filled in.  This building has long since been demolished.

At one end of Princes Street is Regent Circus and at the other is the Whalebridge junction, which itself used to be a roundabout until recent years.  The police station has been built and demolished, a car show room (Walker Jackson or Skurrays?) now replaced by Jurys Inn hotel.  About the only thing that remains the same since our childhood is that it is a dual carriageway!

We have various photographs of Princes Street which were taken mainly of buildings on or near it rather than of the street itself.  Have a look at the buildings in the background and spot the changes.