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This is the Joymount corner of the town; the gardens, no longer there, mark where a governor of the castle, Sir Arthur Chichester, began to build a fine mansion in 1610.

A fine private house covered with Virginia creeper stands at the corner of Church Street in the distance.

The newsagent on the corner survived until recently, and the post office has moved up the road a little.

On the immediate left is the pump and a corner of the fine Market Hall, built in 1814 by local man John Perry; it was soon affectionately referred to as the Pepperbox and, more recently, as the Pepperpot

Then comes Superdrug on the corner of Vickers Lane (formerly Post Office Lane), and then Argos. Barclay's Bank is still at 64 Eastgate (extreme right).

Three doors down on the right, with a horse-drawn vegetable cart in front, is the Victoria Hotel, on the corner of King Street. I have enjoyed many a Sunday lunch there.

Then comes Superdrug on the corner of Vickers Lane (formerly Post Office Lane), and then Argos. Barclay's Bank is still at 64 Eastgate (extreme right).

The original inn stood on the opposite side of the road, on the south- western corner of what is now the busy Oxford road into Swindon.

Teas are still being served on the corner of The Village and Arrowe Park Road at the Stone House Café (U36010, right), and the Horse and Jockey Hotel still occupies the junction of Rake Lane

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

Brierley`s hired out rowing boats, canoes and punts from their landing stage at the corner of the Ouse and Hen Brook.

The original village, cut off by the by-pass, is to the west; while this photograph, taken from the junction with Easthill Road, shows the corner of Station Road West.

To the right, on the corner of Kingston Road, is R E Christopher, chemists since 1863 (the premises now belong to Davies & Davies, estate agents).

On the corner of Havelock Street and to the left stood Anstiss & Co Ltd, drapers, which stood here until the 1960s when it suffered two major fires, the second of which destroyed the premises completely

The sign on the lamp post indicates that the Post Office can be found in Quay Street, to where it was moved from the corner of High Street and Dark Street in 1936.

The three-storey building on the left-hand corner was built in 1849 to replace the Globe, which had succeeded the earlier Cock and Pye Inn.

A whole world of corner shops and little communities was disappearing, but what was the alternative?

Lloyds Bank, on the right, is on the corner of Market Street. The policeman, possibly on traffic duty, is talking to a man whose cap and breeches suggest a chauffeur or AA patrolman.

The buildings on the corner of High Street and The Broadway were named Warwick Mansions.

We are standing in South Promenade, with the Chadwick Hotel on the corner. Lightburn Avenue was named after the second lighthouse at St Anne's.

On the opposite corner is Freeman, Hardy & Willis`s shoe shop (now the Edinburgh Wool Shop), and further down is the International Tea Company.

The gardens in the foreground are at the corner of Mansfield Road close to the Lodge.

Alfred Webb, on the corner of Bellfoundry Lane (left), had been established in 1897 as Webb Bros.

On the opposite corner are the 16th-century Bury Villas; before the modern frontage was built they were one house, and jettied (with an overhanging upper storey).