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This view shows clearly the vestry block (to the right of the chancel) which was added in the 1880s.

Sad to say, investors were unimpressed, and only the road layout and a hotel block and shops were built.

On the right, the two Ford Populars and the Morris Eight Series 1 tourer are parked outside the Home and Colonial Stores (now a pizza parlour and a video hire shop) and the block of three chain shops -

There were also two brick mounting blocks about 15 inches high for the less agile people to mount their horses: one outside Burgesses the bakers (opposite the present car park) and one by the entrance

The block of buildings incorporating the Hotel Central and Lennards shoe shop (right) all have different occupants.

By the end of the 14th century these had solidified into a block of shops called Middle Row.

By the end of the 14th century these had solidified into a block of shops called Middle Row.

The slums of the Gorbals were cleared, and in their place in the 1960s arose enormous tower blocks; in recent years they have been demolished to make way for low-density housing of a more humane

The great blocks of quarried stone, some 70,000 tons of which were transported from here annually, were utilised not only in the construction of many famous buildings in London from the time of James

This was blocked in 1210, and so was an arcade in the north wall of the western old nave, which is now the porch.

The building, part of a pseudo-Tudor block, still stands in Queensway.

The upper floors of the blocks were given over to offices catering for the total life of the busy town.

After a royal luncheon, the Duke had a tour of the town centre and the new Keay House office block.

Poulett Lodge, formerly the home of Earl Poulett at the top of Cross Deep, was demolished in 1933 and replaced with a block of flats, called Thames Eyot.

'The hill of lime or loose stones' is one meaning suggested in a recent book, or if we believe the name has a Celtic derivation, we end up with 'the shelter on a rock'; but no one can really pin the meaning

Opposite is a parade of shops and an office block which still houses Lloyds Bank, but the road now has a complex set of traffic junctions.

Only at the back on the Ashley Avenue side are the car park and office block allowed to rise to their full height.

The old two-storey workshops that could be found everywhere began to be replaced by bigger buildings, often of two or three storeys, with the ground floor brick, and the upper weatherboarded.

The house (now a Town Council Community Centre), the stable block (now the Town Museum) and the immediate gardens eventually became the home in 1902 of Dr William Stainthorpe, who extended the house

Later, this became the administrative block for the Manor Hospital and, although damaged by a flying bomb in the Second World War, the building is still largely intact, and has recently been converted

They formed a hotel company which, for £900, bought from Peter Bruff the street block to the east of the pier.

It also survived a fire in the central office block occupied by a computer firm in 1994.