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  • A postcard view from a photograph taken around 1890, entitled, 'A Bit of King's Street, Brecon'. The location is known as King Charles Steps, supposedly given this name after King Charles ran up them to escape from parliamentarians during the Civil War.
King's Street, Brecon, c. 1890
  • An image issued as a postcard in the 1940s, of the narrow cobbled alley in Brecon here called King Street but also known as the Kings Steps. King Charles I is said to have run up the steps to escape the parliamentarians during the Civil War.
King Street, Brecon, c. 1945