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Did Henry VIII walk this street? In 1519 a Bewdley girl gave birth to his illegitimate son, later created Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.

This is the main street through the town. The steps used to lead into the post office, but it is now a restaurant and Tourist Information Office.

The Prince of Wales Hotel was built on Lord Street in 1876. In the 1923 Dunlop Guide the Prince is listed has having 150 beds and garaging for 4 cars.

In the mid-1950s, however, there were still horses and carts in the street (centre), and motorists still had time to read the advertising hoardings visible on the building on the left.

We are looking eastwards from the end of Brotton High Street, and the chimneys of the Skinningrove iron and steel works can be seen in the distance.

Top left: Nether Edge, first developed residentially in the Victorian period, is noted for its tree-lined streets.

This view is on the High Street, part of the A361 Banbury to Daventry road. In the 1950s this was the more minor B4036.

Towcester has a long history, initially as a Roman fort and town called 'Lactodorum' located on the route the Anglo-Saxons called Watling Street which ran from Richborough in Kent to Shropshire.

There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

The buildings on the right made way for new ones at the entrance to High Street in the 1950s. Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

To the east of the High Street there were several chalk pits: this was the biggest. It lies to the south of Carshalton Road, and east of the Congregational Church.

He is looking along Germain Street towards the town centre and Market Place, but the houses beyond the bridge gave long been demolished.

In this view, the photographer looks up High Street from the west, the opposite direction to that in the two earlier views.

This street takes its name from the Guildhall of Our Lady, later called the Wool Hall, which now forms part of the Swan Hotel on the left.

Fore Street heads east from the Market Place to cross the River Parrett on the iron bridge dated 1883; this replaced an early Coalbrookdale cast-iron bridge of 1795.

Tenby was never really designed for use by the motorcar, and apart from some Victorian road widening, with the demolition of some old terraces and properties, it still largely adheres to its medieval street

These included the lodges which were built on the High Street at the end of the carriage drive (their sites are now the Library Gardens), by 1901 re-erected half way up Marlow Hill, and the lodge

This is St Mary`s parish church in South Street, seen from the north-east. The projecting north transept (right) dates from the 13th century and is two centuries older than the tower.

Sunblinds are extended on the side of the street facing the sun.

In this photograph, taken a few years after 56473 (pages 30-31), horse carriages still await their fares in the centre of Brook Street.

This view looks east from the High Street to the west tower of the large medieval parish church. To the left is a former manor house, once the Urban District Council offices.

Frith's photographer has moved into the High Street and is looking south towards The White Horse pub - which is little changed today.

At the south end of the High Street the road widens to a pleasant green, formerly a market place.

Coningsby, on the south bank, has lost much of its historic character: in this view of Silver Street the house in front of the mill survives, but not the mill; all to the left has gone, and the road at