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The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

The war memorial is centrally placed in the village alongside the winding street by the stream. The roots of tradition run deep here, and some old customs were observed until the 19th century.

Across the street is a café. Cyclists are approaching – there were many here, for the flat Fylde plain was ideal for cycling.

The slopes to the rear of West Street are still green, and the view at the end of the 20th century is a little less smoke-hazed.

Although the original village green is away to the south, along the High Street it is the superbly spacious circular underground station by Charles Holden, and the grassy roundabout, that create a new

A little further south, the photographer looks past The Old Cottage, on the west or left side of the High Street, towards the rendered and jettied mid 16th-century Tudor House with the carved bargeboards

Further along the street there are 17th-century thatched cottages, but the closest house is Victorian, with a metal balcony over its bay- window shop front.

Run by Victor Lock and his son, with telephone number Bere Regis 1, this was the post office from 1927 till 1973, when it moved to West Street.

Its character is now that of a Victorian industrial town, as this view shows; we are at the main crossroads in the town centre, with Church Street off to the right.

Designed by Christopher Wren in 1672 as a triumphal arch, Temple Bar originally stood at the top of Fleet Street in London.

Situated on the main street, many dated stone cottages housed the mill workers. The mill is now a private house. Captain Cuthbert Bradkirk came from Wray, near Carnforth.

The harbour nestles beneath the steep cliff and steep streets. The medieval church stands high above the promenade, and has a Norman tower.

The round-arched doorway to be seen on the left was re-erected here in the 1560s; it was salvaged from the demolished church of St Peter Dunstable on Cauldwell Street south of the river.

Adelphi Hotel: it was built in c1840 on the site of Adelphi Gardens by the Midland Railway Company, and was in direct competition with the London North Western Railway Hotel, which was further along Lime Street

The tower of the Municipal Buildings on Dale Street dominates the sky-line to the left. At the time of our photograph, it cost 1s 6d for a car to go through the tunnel.

This view looks west along the High Street. The pub on the right, a fine ironstone and thatch building, is now a house.

Further south, Watling Street widens to form a market place complete with town hall and a corn exchange.

This view looks north towards the Market Place and captures well the character of this market town, most of whose 19th- and late 18th-century buildings still line the streets.

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

Beyond are the buildings along the east side of West Street, formerly Hothampton Field, and after 1815 renamed Waterloo Square.

The road to the right of the Three Cups Inn is St Mary`s Street.

Looking eastwards along Church Street from Magnolias, across the River Bride, in a sylvan setting beside a clapper bridge next to the village school.

The second view looks along Waldron Road into the High Street, with the London road turning beyond the houses on the right; the nearest of these, Warnham Cottage, is no longer a shop but a

The River Thames curves eastward north of the village and then converges towards Church Street, some of whose gardens have a water frontage.