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Mr Thirkell's butcher's shop with its corner door stands at the junction of the two streets (right), and next to it is Westbrook's newsagent's shop (apparently being decorated – note the man

On the right is Union Street; the corner shop was W H Smith, but is now Oxfam. All of this part of the street was dug up during the extensive road works of early 2004.

In the 19th century the shop on the corner was a grocer's and baker's owned by the family of the writer Richard Jefferies.

The building on the opposite corner is currently an antiques shop, one of a number in the High Street.

A field known as Joiners Hill on the south corner of St Nicholas Lane at the entrance from High Road is shown on the 1839 Laindon Tithe Map, and it is thought that the route via Laindon High

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.

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

The Barton Corn Exchange (the arched building on the left), built in 1853 and opened in 1854, is still there and in use, and in the far corner is an Italian restaurant.

The ladies' wear shop on the corner of Nevill Street (on the left) is now a national footwear retailer, but the facades of that and its neighbour have been refurbished recently and continue to

Facing south, Bury Villas are on the corner of Church Street (centre), which leads to the High Street.

The original Norman fort at Porchester was merely a corner of the old 3rd-century Roman Saxon Shore fort defended on the two open sides by the building of a wooden palisade.

The Barton Corn Exchange (the arched building on the left), built in 1853 and opened in 1854, is still there and in use, and in the far corner is an Italian restaurant.

On the right is Union Street; the corner shop was W H Smith, but is now Oxfam. All of this part of the street was dug up during the extensive road works of early 2004.

A field known as Joiners Hill on the south corner of St Nicholas Lane at the entrance from High Road is shown on the 1839 Laindon Tithe Map, and it is thought that the route via Laindon High

The west end of Paragon Street took its name from the late 18th-century inn of the same name, which occupied the corner of the nearby Chariot Street.

On King Street and the corner of Station Road is an old cricket square. This is said to be where the first Lancashire versus Yorkshire match was played.

Temple Moore placed the newly assembled cenotaph in the south- west corner, next to the old three-light east window, which was relocated from the sanctuary.

The bank was built where the last two buildings on the corner with Sadler Street once stood, which were Charles Tucker's Wells General Drapery Bazaar and Reakes hardware store.

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.

Copper mining in the 18th century brought an influx of workers into this quiet spot just to the east of Scotch Corner on the Roman Watling Street.

The building on the corner with the clock showing 2.20 (right) is Williams Deacon's Bank.

This corner shop has had a long history of printing and publishing, and local names such as Ridge, Clarke and Marshall Ltd and Leayton & Eden, plus the two already mentioned, were at times situated

Cloisters with studies above run to the south and east of Old Quad, with a tall arch forming the entrance to the School House dining hall at the south-eastern corner.

The diminutive building just beyond it, at the other corner of Donegall Place, was now the Royal Hotel, but it had been built by Lord Donegall as his town house.