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Not visible in this photograph, but well worth walking to see at the west end of the street, is St Stephen's church, a large and handsome building which was founded before the Norman Conquest.

Looking down High Street we see, right, North End Cottage, now the post office. On the left is the Old Hall and the Catholic church, Our Lady of Mount Grace.

Downhill to the south and across the River Maun, the High Street continues uphill to pass The Dukeries Hotel, now for some reason called Ma Hubbard's Eating House and Hotel.

There used to be a horse fair here - the streets were blocked by straw bales to keep the animals in. The ancient market was restored in 1834; it was held every Friday.

Across the road, on the corner of Mersey Street, the Packet House Inn hints at the days when packet boats carried passengers along the Mersey to Liverpool.

(Nick Thomas) Church Lane, viewed from Water Street. This is one of the pleasantest parts of the town.

The steep, winding and narrow High Street (down which flaming tar barrels were rolled to the terror of the populace until the practice was banned in 1824) gives an excellent impression of

Liverpool Road was a long road running from Church Street, Eccles to the airport out at Barton.

The Sessions House on William Brown Street is pictured here just three years after it opened. Designed by F & G Holme, its original purpose has now been forgotten.

The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street.

This is the main shopping street of Sleaford, and the Handley Memorial was the ideal place for a set of destination signs.

After 1870 Currey produced his second master plan for the areas around the hamlet of Meads, this time for tree-lined streets of villas and houses in grounds that led to this western development being

Some of the flavour of the old village remains in this view today, which looks eastwards along Broadwater Street East.

The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street. Thoughts of war seem far away in this peaceful, unhurried scene.

Our last view in this chapter before turning north back to Hailsham shows the Horse and Groom pub at the junction of the High Street and the Eastbourne Road, the A22.

Station Road, behind the photographer, is the main shopping street, and now has two major supermarkets.

Ockley is a very fine village along the course of the Roman road from London to Chichester, which has been known from Anglo-Saxon times as Stane Street.

In the last forty or so years, very little has changed in the High Street, although the recently built premises of the Midland Bank (right) has now become a private house.

It is now an unprepossessing village, with some pleasing weatherboarded houses in the High Street. On the right are two public houses - the Victoria and the Black Bull.

Here we see another view of the main street. The jaunting car tells of the recent changes, and the lamps tell of a gasworks only waiting to be expanded.

These buildings give a cottagy feel to what is essentially a commercial street, as we can see from the buildings opposite - they house a shop, a pub and the outbuildings of a brewery.

Cobham stands on Watling Street and was once a busy market centre.

Watsons, the long-established glass and china business occupying the site in 1913, moved to Queen Street in 1931.

The spacious northern end of the High Street, with its central water garden and carefully tended flowerbeds, marks the area where the market hall stood until 1853.