5 & 6 Binford Place

Numbers 5 and 6 Binford Place were later merged into yeast store and then a garage before their demolition in 1966. Number 5 appears to have been a fashionable shop at the end of the eighteenth century. At that time number 6 was one of the two Binford Place entrances to Chubb’s yard.

For unknown reasons, between the time John Chubb drew number 5 and its first photographs in the 1860s, it had been converted from a fashionable affair to something much more humble.

Only number 5 Binford Place was recorded by Chubb, here in about 1780 and next in about 1790 – neither match, so there seems to have been some artistic licence made.
Here a building of four bays instead of three is shown – the door retains it’s porch, but not the decorative arms, the roof ornament remains, but the window layout is completely different.
This image of about 1905 shows both 5 and 6, but hard to reconcile with Chubb’s illustrations of over a hundred years before. In earlier pictures this building bore the sign ‘Gymnasium’.
By the 1950s the two buildings had been replaced, or altered beyond recognition.
The building in its final years, number 6 having been rebuilt and enlarged.