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Between the shops on the right of 85178 (page 56) lies a narrow tunnel leading into Windsor Court.

Debenhams would become the big clothes shop for increasingly fashion-conscious women.

Debenhams would become the big clothes shop for increasingly fashion-conscious women.

Marlowes itself was gradually developed with several fine villas and shops appearing amongst speculative building and shabby cottages.

Shops and houses stood where now the bus stops are. On this site once stood the Old Bandstand, which commemorated the lives lost in 1914-18. The bandstand was removed in the early 1970s.

Geoff Cox observed: 'The rush hour is an absolute (Robert Cook) Looking across at Chapel Street today, from under the canopy of the large shopping centre.

Other street names were taken from ships that had been built at Vickers shipyard in Barrow.

fortunes of the Castlegate for more than three centuries, during which time it has seen the market expand as the city grew more prosperous and populous, and then contract as retailing retreated inside into shops

It stood next to a tithe barn until shops were built to meet the town's changing requirements.

But they had been there long enough for an assortment of shops and tradesmen's houses to spring up around their fort.

Other street names were taken from ships that had been built at Vickers shipyard in Barrow.

Wisely, those who planned the growth of suburban Littleham built its modest shopping centre away from the heart of the old village.

Their old, moated manor house became a farm; a few cottages and a blacksmith's shop remained around the junction of Horton Lane and Long Grove Road with a more substantial building at West Park farmhouse

The closure of the docks at the end of the last century has led to a massive redevelopment of the dock area, with luxury apartments standing where ships once unloaded and men worked long hours.

The drama began with proposals for a relief road that would take traffic away from the High Street to make it a more inviting shopping environment.

eastern side of the Broadway was totally transformed: in the early 1930s Arnolds Cottage, a double- fronted late Victorian villa, was demolished, to be replaced by a single-storey terrace of shops

Houses and shops were then built and in 1855 it was described as most strikingly beautiful portion of the town.

These were to be fronted with shops to create a first-rate retailing zone. The councillors were right to name it Royal Avenue.

WALKING AROUND Walsall town centre today there is little to show visitors what the town looked like in its early years.

His son Lester took over in 1927, the time of the Depression, and for a while the windows of the shop were filled with stacks of empty boxes, keeping up an illusion of trade to maintain credit.

I have not mentioned the Civil War or local politics at all - these belong in other books; but I hope I have indicated that the town seen in the Frith views has much of its earlier framework or skeleton

The estate buildings are all now part of Denbies Winery, with a reception centre, a restaurant, conference rooms and a gift shop.