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It is famous today for its racecourse, its homemade sticky toffee pudding, and as the retirement place of Mavis Riley - she opened a bed and breakfast establishment here after leaving 'Coronation Street

This site at the foot of Barn Street was purchased in 1789 for £200 and by September of that year a chapel costing £308 6s was complete. It was rebuilt in 1816 but damaged in a gas explosion in 1842.

Diveting eastwards up Mill Street, our tour reaches St Cuthbert's Church, which served the east part of the town and was possibly of Anglo-Saxon origin.

East of the church and the Moot Hall, a jettied timber-framed building of about 1500, standing in its green, is the main north-south village road, the High Street.

The street lighting by the chemist was a new innovation, only introduced in 1900 after the generating station opened in Commercial Road.

It is possible, though, that the actual Ravern Tavern was located in Southgate Street.

The parish church of St Peter, with its solid flintstone tower dominating the high street shops and mid-morning traffic in this picture, was originally built by the Normans alongside the spacious

The wide High Street gave Broadway its name; the road was built to cover two streams that flow either side of the old road.

Presumably, however, the Star was able to benefit from the railways too, with Foregate Street Station being just across the road.

In this High Street view there is a dairy, Preston's Library (where you could borrow a novel to enjoy whilst lounging in your deckchair), and a branch of International Stores, which quickly saw off old-style

Here we see Eccles Town Hall in Church Street; at this time it was still its own master, but threatened with take-over even then by big brother Salford.

But no one would dare leave a hand cart in the middle of the street today, as these children have!

Traffic is still sparse in the town's main shopping street, but parking regulations (different sides on alternate days) were in force.

Beaumont Street is named after the family of Viscount Allendale; here stands the great Abbey Church of St Andrew that makes Hexham important.

By this time New Street had been diverted behind the building and Church Close created.

Looking back towards Boutport Street in 1903, Brook's is still a cafe. It became Bromley's Restaurant in the 1940s until it closed at the end of the 1960s.

The workaday appearance of the street shows how it had been overtaken by the success of the resort.

We are looking from Market Square south-east into Walton Street. The Bell had been reworked in 1919, and is still much the same.

Wide streets denote a planned town. The main drainage scheme at St Anne's was inaugurated by William J Porritt on 18 August 1892; the first sod was cut with a silver and ebony spade.

Looking down the main street, we see the old post office (right), now two cottages. The new post office is in the Bull Inn, to the right, next to the tin-roofed church of St Thomas.

The town was laid out north and west of the Abbey precincts, with the Market Place at the junction of High, Magdalen, Benedict and North Load Streets.

The George Hotel, top left, spans the entrance to the Market Arcade in Devonshire Street. It led into a covered market built between 1860 and 1866, a venue much used for meetings and entertainment.

Attempts to make amends include pedestrianising the High Street, but many of the buildings seen in this view, particularly on the left- hand side, have gone, including the 1880s Barclays Bank

There are excellent parking facilities for vehicles in this part of the High Street.