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The Hand in Hand Fire Office, a well-known insurance company, was situated at 1 New Bridge Street. The site is now an open space.

Donkeys ply up and down the steep-stepped street, carrying goods on panniers. The New Inn is still there, offering rest and refreshment to visitors.

This time he was facing south towards Boutport Street. There is a welter of shop signs - the Victorian and Edwardian shopkeepers were never slow to advertise their wares.

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

King Street is the location of the former market place, which was built over many years ago. Also along here is the timber-framed Saracen's Head.

This agreeable street has many fine old shopfronts, some multi-paned and dating from the late Georgian period. On the left, Wearne & Son's have a fine overhead sign of gilded wooden letters.

Looking north along the High Street, we see that the old lamp standards have been replaced by more lofty modern ones, and while the electrical shop on the left is still primarily concerned with advertising

Here we see Addenbrooke's from the roof of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Trumpington Street.

The view looks along Bridge Street towards the river. The Original Bakewell Pudding Shop is located further along on the right hand side. Stewarts Clothing Hall is the major building on the right.

Design and materials would be mostly 1870 by Street, and Pevsner claims it is not a church that could contribute to his fame.

Single-storey dormered cottages sit comfortably with the later elegance of the flat-fronted Georgian house further along the street.

Further down the street Continental Motors are the local Michelin agents.

Sunday trippers make their way from the pier to Argyll Street. As

The interior quadrangular courtyard is entered from College Street through an arched gateway. Above the entrance is a stone figure of St William (the Archbishop of York) who died in 1154.

The village's close proximity to Watling Street made it a prosperous community in medieval times.

But the tram tracks have been removed, and the street furniture is due for an extensive adjustment. Note the pre-war design of the 'Halt' sign near the Midland Bank building.

Note the shopkeepers diligently scanning the High Street in search of custom. Outside E.W.

John Kiely`s Refreshment Rooms in South Street had a rustic look, accentuated by moss on the thatched roof and the windows open for air in a hot summer.

This view is looking toward Broad Street with the road to Weston-super-Mare on the right.

The Nottingham Joint Stock Bank, later the Midland Bank, who had premises further up the street, then bought the plot of land adjoining its old building and built an imposing new office.

It is remarkable that the Town Hall still almost totally blocks the town's High Street. It was built in 1652.

The west end of the High Street is bounded by St Peter and St Paul's Church, dating from the mid to late 15th century.

Opposite is the premises of W H Lewry, the High Street butcher, which remained in the family until 1999.

Here the Cherwell flows under the easterly part of the High Street. Nearby Magdalen College is the first significant building you see on entering the city by the old London road.