IN this edition of nostalgia, we are looking back at Oxford Street in Workington throughout the years.

These pictures show how the street has evolved through the years, some images show shops that has since departed, different transport routes and other changes that have happened since these pictures were snapped in their respective time era.

The Oxford Street photos of the Motor Cycle Ton Up Boys who ride along Oxford Street in Workington in 1962 and the farmers protest shows the same buildings on top of the shops. Workington still has many classic buildings if you look above the shops.

You can see the building where the library is situated on Oxford Street is still the same as the image later on in the collection.

You can see in the photograph from 1962, what cars looked like in that era - we would now consider these vintage!

Oxford street was once home to the Oxford Picture Theatre, which now is a Wetherspoons, the original name of the building is still visible on the front.

In common with other Wetherspoon pubs, the name has a local association.  In 1855, Henry Bessemer devised his converter; this blasted air into molten pig-iron, allowing the production of steel at one-fifth of the previous cost.

Bessemer found West Cumbrian iron ore to be the country’s purest and most suitable for his process. The system was introduced at the West Cumberland Haematite Iron Company’s Oldside works in 1860, soon after Bessemer visited the area and, in 1872, the company began producing steel from its own pig-iron.