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North of this east-west road, Little Bookham Street has some older buildings amid the suburbia and wide grassy verges.

Here we see the main street. Once a year the village would be packed with visitors; they came to lean over Paythorne Bridge and watch the salmon leaping in the River Ribble.

Also on the street is the office of the Pontefract Park Race Company, formed in 1919 to manage the old course established in the early 18th century.

The Angel remained until April 1961, when the official reason for its removal to the Princess Street Corporation Works Yard was its rapid deterioration due to erosion.

In the centre of the view, behind the Market Cross, we see property in the Market Place and entrance to Church Street before it was demolished as part of a road-widening scheme in the early

By now the impact of the alterations to the Market Place and Church Street of 1962/63 are clear.

On the other side of Bridge Street are the Rock Point Inn (centre right), where steps and signs lead to its Town View Restaurant.

Along past the Friday Street junction is Arlett's launch hire office by the river, (H73006, pages 52-53) a 1950 building, now Alf Parrott Moorings Ltd.

The hotel façade has not changed, but Boots have moved further along the High Street and the Halifax Bank has replaced Boots.

It is the wealth created by the years of shipping which has given Wisbech two of the most perfect Georgian streets in England - the Brinks on the banks of the River Nene.

The new A55 road tunnel beneath the river diverts through-traffic from its streets. The quay is busy today with pleasure craft, rather than the commercial traffic of the past.

It then moved to Silver Street, and finally came to rest here in 1904. The low brick building, with Ketton stone facings, cost £8,000.

It was on this street that a chantry house was provided, built by the widow of wealthy Newark merchant Alan Flemyng.

The historic village centre peters out beyond the right- hand turn into the High Street.

The unprepossessing church of St Mary Magdalen by Henry Goddard (1813-99 - see St Andrew's, Countesthorpe) sits on the south side of the main street.

The railings have long gone, but two of the ornate cast- iron lamp-posts survive in what is now a pedestrianised street.

With a plan based on its Roman predecessor, Noviomagus, this fine walled city is divided into quarters by North, South, East and West Streets, which all meet at the splendid Market Cross in the centre

Situated near the south end of High Street, this is generally regarded as the finest civic building of its period in the country.

The new building on the corner of the High Street, with its three large shops and two floors of flats above, can be seen in greater detail in this photograph.

At this major junction of Cheam Road, Carshalton Road and the steep High Street, the splendid and ornate sign of the Cock Hotel with the Courage Brewery rooster mounted above sits in the centre.

The first-floor bay window just visible beyond is dated 1876 in mosaic, and beside it is the entrance to the North Street Schools.

This view looks east along the High Street. The King's Head has gone for a 1960s parade of shops with flats over, Arndale House, while much on the left has also been rebuilt.

This view looks along one of these quiet lanes, The Street, towards the parish church, with the walls to Puttenham Priory's grounds on the right: no real priory this, but a good stucco mansion

war memorial replaced an earlier obelisk with gas lamps attached; this had stood in the middle of what was a sheep market until 1885, the livestock market then moving to a new site in Bury Street