THESE photographs were posted by Nicky Teague in our We Grew Up In Hereford group on Facebook.

They both show her mum, Eileen Sullivan, nee Bounds, on the Old Bridge in Hereford.

On the left, Eileen is pictured in 1952 when she was just 17 years old and worked at the long-gone Tudor Cafe in Commercial Street.

Nicky took the photo of her mum in the same place 71 years later when Eileen was aged 88 – stylish as ever and with the same wonderful warm smile!

In the background of the picture is the old Mead and Tomkinson building (Sully's Garage at the time the picture was taken), a motorcycle and car dealership which was run by family who built and fielded motorcycles for iconic races such as the Isle of Man TT and the Le Mans Bol D’Or.

Hereford Times: Nicky Teague submitted this picture of her mum Eileen Sullivan, nee Bounds, on the Old Bridge, Hereford, when she was aged 17 in 1952Nicky Teague submitted this picture of her mum Eileen Sullivan, nee Bounds, on the Old Bridge, Hereford, when she was aged 17 in 1952

But as the 1990s drew to an end, the former dealership was demolished, and Dutch entrepreneur Albert Heijn’s Left Bank – his vision for a high-end leisure complex in Hereford – took shape.

Opening to customers in 2000, the bar and restaurant complex overlooking the river endured a chequered history after Mr Heijn sold the business in 2007.

The venue shut in 2009 before a second effort to make the business work saw it close suddenly before Christmas the following year.

Then owners, Nottingham-based Bramcote Holdings, put it on the open market with a guide price of £1.25million in 2013, and the site remained closed until 2014, when it was bought by Cathedral View Investments. It was reopened under new leaseholders, the Waring family, later that year.