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Fore Street once had many thatched cottages and a stream running down one side, but it was rebuilt in the 19th century, when the town prospered with the woollen industry.

Drayton's thatched, grey lias war memorial stands across Church Street from the Drayton Arms. Behind stands Church House, once a meeting-place for monks from nearby Muchelney Abbey.

On the right is Lloyd's Bank, and beyond it is the entrance to Cheap Street. The road below was frequently flooded by the River Frome.

The view down the High Street has changed very little, but the increased volume of traffic has brought traffic lights to the junction with the road to Over.

Aptly named, this wide street wends its way down to the river. In the foreground stands the Bear Hotel, formerly The Bear's Head, built around 1868, with its mock-Tudor façade.

This classic view looks west down High Street to the Wey valley and beyond to Guildown (The Mount).

A range of 15th- and 16th-century timber- framed houses, some jettied, the Rose and Crown follows the curve of a lane linking Ipswich Road and East Street.

Gas street lighting was common at the time.

Stand by the Burton monument and look down the High Street to compare this photograph with the scene today. The Lion and Lamb on the right has changed its name, and is now called Fridays.

West Street includes various almshouses and picturesque stone cottages. The Victoria Inn on the left of the picture is now a private house.

In 1901 the main road to the south was Park Street. The lane to the right leads to Gosmore, and at the top of the hill in front of us, hidden by the bushes, is the Moorhens public house.

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park.

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

This lovely street, fringed with cobbles, leads down to the White Lion Inn and the old church, where the poet William Cowper, 'England's sweetest and most pious bard', was laid to rest.

This is the same street as in view 54380 but we are looking in the opposite direction. There are cart tracks in the loose, unsealed road surface.

We can wlak along the High Street today and pick out most of these buildings, even if the delightfully named Public Benefit Boot Company on the right is more.

A comparison with the previous photographs of Church Street will show how little it changed in the half century following Victoria's reign,

At the top of the street, Church Road was already bisected by the arterial road to Southend.

Note the sign on the left advertising Cadbury`s chocolate and the cobbled street leading up to the church.

Off the west side of Sheep Street, a plaque informs us that the Zoo Park was opened in the grounds of the historic Croyland Abbey in 1943.

Before the town council renamed it Queen Street, this road was called Crockherbtown, allegedly because the monks of Greyfriars used to grow pots of herbs here. The last Cardiff tram ran in 1950.

There was once a railway running down the middle of this street and around the corner at the end. It went to Westward Ho! and Appledore, and ran for sixteen years, closing in March 1917.

Another view of the High Street. The exquisite Guildhall is in the centre. It was built in 1330, remodelled in 1468, and the portico over the pavement added in 1592.