FOR this week's edition of nostalgia, we have looked back at what Carlisle's high street used to look like throughout the decades.

While on the surface there hasn’t been a lot of transformation apart from the changing of familiar shops and the introduction of pedestrianisation, in reality very few of the buildings on older photographs in the city centre remain.

The old lanes on Scotch Street were knocked down in the late 1970s and early 1980s to make way for the new Lanes development. But careful planning meant that the new shops look very similar to the ones that were replaced.

The earliest photograph was taken in 1958 on the occasion of the visit of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to the city. It was a rescheduled visit to mark the city’s octo-centenary, the Queen having had to cancel the first one due to ill-health.

Other photod include a view of Botchergate,Carlisle taken in December 1963, you can see what older buses used to look like.

A photo from slightly outside the centre shows the changing Carlisle, as a temporary car park off Corporation Road is installed in 1968.

One photo of Carlisle city centre before pedestrianisation in 1989 still looks the same as it does today- with the same layout, just minus the cars.

In 1968, Carlisle’s Shaddongate underwent major road and building changes. Most of the houses up to Dixon's chimney were demolished and the cobbled road resurfaced and widened as shown in one photo.

You can see in the photo which shows the site for the new telephone exchange building, in Cecil Street, Carlisle in 1967, the Botchergate picture and the car park picture what old cars used to look like, they are what we would consider vintage now!