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Other similar local names are Fish Street and Butcher Row. Sometimes names changed. Who would want to live in Swine Street, no matter how smart the houses?

Good Friday and Easter Monday would see a miniature fair—stalls for refreshments, model yacht racing on the reservoir, rowing boats for hire, bowls and so on.

The row of shops opposite was known as The Polygon, though R H Toothill's chemist shop is on Church View.

Across the water, rowing boats are available for hire.

Boar Lane bissects Briggate and runs along the southern edge of the commercial heart of the city between Kirkgate and Park Row.

Herring and mackerel were caught from rowing boats worked by four men. Seaton has a long history of seafaring going back to 1346, when it provided two ships and 25 men to fight the French.

At the entrance to the pier, a group of men stand passing the time of day, watching a group of small boys playing on the rowing boats drawn up on the foreshore. A dog waits patiently.

The shops were built in two tiers - it is said that the architect, Donald Gibson, was inspired by the magnificent medieval Rows at Chester.

A derrick crane on the left is for unloading coal, while a small crane near the lock gates is for lifting rowing boats in and out of the water in the outer harbour.

After 1855, the town was developed mainly by Peter Bruff, who built Marine Terrace, the central row of houses in this picture.

The view is north-eastwards to the Jubilee Clock and Greenhill (centre right), with the Georgian frontages of Gloucester Row and Royal Crescent facing seawards (left).

This photograph shows the village centre with its rows of pretty cottages.

Butcher Row went long ago.

This is probably the most dull row of buildings in Edgware town.

Further on is a row of Victorian terraced cottages, with dormer and bay windows. On the right, the parked cars wait for petrol or repairs at Fisher's garage with its Esso sign.

The style is classic 1950s: rows of windows are surrounded by stone or concrete projecting jambs, heads and sills, as we can see on the first floor at the left.

This row contained a general and sweet shop (note the Oxo advertisement in the window), with another general store and a teashop at the far end.

The Marine Gardens below the iron railings on the left are now taken up by the Embassy Centre and the Compass Gardens, whilst the row of boarding houses on the right are converted to food and drink businesses

The small boy in the sternsheets of the boat being rowed by the white-bearded man in the peaked cap seems singularly unimpressed by photography, unlike the youth in the stern of the rowboat

The houses here, on what is called Our Lady's Row, are amongst the oldest in England - they are early 14th-century. To the right of this view is the Sanderson's Temperance Hotel, now long gone.

White House cottage to its right, at the end of Bunker's Row, has now been demolished.

The impressive Royal Insurance building and the premises of Abel's Pianos have both gone; the Admiral Rodney pub, Household Linens, the Queen's Arms and Victoria House, at the very end of the row, have

The building is still used today as the headquarters of a rowing club. The large building behind was the Methodist chapel, since demolished.

Rotten Row, a corruption of route du roi, was a ride set aside for equestrians and fashionable promenaders.