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Its charming cottages witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the English Civil War, and its narrow streets some of the most daring smuggling escapades of recent centuries.

Note the sign on the left advertising Cadbury's chocolate and the cobbled street leading up to the church.

Looking in the opposite direction from the Coffee Tavern, this view of Hadleigh's High Street shows the George public house and, further down on the same side, the White Lion Hotel.

On the left of the cobbled High Street, notably devoid of any traffic, is Edward's Drug Store, which later passed to Boots. The building, in brick and stone, dates from the late 17th century.

The action-packed scene that is a town street in Edwardian days, with plenty of people going about their business; the only traffic is horse-drawn vehicles.

This photograph was taken at the top of this main thoroughfare where it levels out and widens into Bore Street.

For many years Brixham's Fore Street was the principal thoroughfare between Higher Brixham and the harbour. Here we see it at a time when the shops catered mostly for local fishing families.

A bustling and lively shopping street but not yet choked with motor traffic.

Rolle Street was named after the prominent family that lived at nearby Bicton House.

The very narrow Broad Gate is obviously named for the street rather than the width of the gate.

It is difficult to equate this tumble-down cobbled street with today's unattractive Westgate.

With international visitors and tourists thronging the streets, St Aldates is much busier today than it was when this photograph was taken.

Jutting out across the street is the sign for Weston Bros, who called themselves 'The London Tailors'. Beyond is the Ulverston Savings Bank clock.

The High Street of Skelton is dominated by the tower of the parish church.

Paying on the nail - the brass pillars, or nails, in Corn Street, outside what used to be the Bristol Corn Exchange, were used by merchants when striking a bargain.

Paying on the nail - the brass pillars, or nails, in Corn Street, outside what used to be the Bristol Corn Exchange, were used by merchants when striking a bargain.

Here we see Baxtergate at the junction of St Sepulchre Gate and the High Street.

The brick porch fronting the street was the entrance to the courtyard of an earlier Tudor house; it was retained when the Elizabethan timber-framed building was constructed.

It had malthouses and shipbuilding yards: the last trading wherry on the Broads was built in the Anchor Street boatyard here in 1912.

The large coaching-inn is the White Hart, which once boasted perhaps the most famous inn sign in England, an enormous wooden structure stretching right across the street which included 25 life-size figures

The lane links the harbour front with Fore Street. The buildings on the right were badly damaged by a fierce fire in 1970.

The church tower rises above these small weatherboarded and tiled cottages in a side lane off the main High Street.

Broad Street boasts a great variety of inns and hotels.

Two men converse outside a hardware store on the left, while the Bull Hotel, seen in photograph No 46914, can be seen at the far end of the street.