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Its early visitors were upper-class people who had summer homes here.
During the 19th century, the well-laid-out streets to the south beyond Donegall Square were matched (at least in orderliness) by those built on the reclaimed land near York Street.
Here we see the beginnings of a familiar retail pattern: multinationals are taking over the high street.
A little further upstream we come to the village of Otterton, built around one long main street. A
The Rectory in South Street, on the south side of St Mary's Parish Church, was the home of the Rural Dean, Rev Henry Richard William Farrer, who was an honorary canon of Salisbury Cathedral.
Thomas's hardware and ironmonger's shop (left) is at a good corner site, with a large display of wares, while opposite, E R Jones is a 'home and foreign outfitter'.
The High Street still has shops, banks and pubs.
The village has acquired international fame as the home of the Quorn Hunt; its founder Hugo Meynell took residence in 1753 at Quorn Hall (now an educational centre).
Those still trading are the Surrey Yeoman (see 46016 overleaf), the Bull's Head (Rose Hill, which we can see in 54666, right, with its entrance on the corner of the High Street and just behind the
When the High Street was built up, a tunnel was created to maintain access to the court, which has now been opened up onto Little Church Street at the back.
Looking eastwards along Church Street from Magnolias, across the River Bride, in a sylvan setting beside a clapper bridge next to the village school.
Clothes were still made at home, and Thoday sold patterns, often by Vogue, which could cost as much as 7s 6d, and also the more humble and easier designs selling for 1s 9d.
This imposing 17th-century mansion was originally designed by Sir Christopher Wren for Henry Guy, and was formerly a home of the Gore family, before being purchased by the Rothschild banking family
The village has acquired international fame as the home of the Quorn Hunt; its founder Hugo Meynell took residence in 1753 at Quorn Hall (now an educational centre).
Once the site of a rambling royal palace largely burned down in the 1690s, the road gradually acquired government offices and the home of the prime minister in Downing Street - its entrance
The Sessions House on William Brown Street is pictured here just three years after it opened.
Warrington's Town Hall was originally Bank Hall, built between 1749-50 by the world-famous architect James Gibbs as a home for a local businessman, Thomas Patten.
The main street consists mostly of stone cottages converted over the years into shops.
The main street consists mostly of stone cottages converted over the years into shops.
The only real change today is that the brick building just to the right of the two cars, which was home to a butcher's shop, was demolished in the early 1970s to widen the entrance to Water Street.
