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A coin of Emperor Constantine, c337AD, was found on the site close to the line of the old Akeman Street and its crossing with the Icknield Way.

This street scene has not changed very much except for the names of the occupants.

The main street consists mostly of stone cottages converted over the years into shops.

Here we see Dock Street (it led down to the old dock) looking slightly past its best. The Ellesmere Port Motor Company premises are on the left, but they look empty and deserted.

The main street consists mostly of stone cottages converted over the years into shops.

How well-ordered the wide street scene appears as it curves away towards Uppingham, with virtually no cars, only rumbling trams and plenty of buses.

This view looks south down the main street towards the church of St Thomas and St Nicholas - we can see its 14th-century crossing tower (centre).

In 1900 the civic facility was moved to the Benn Buildings on the other side of the High Street (now Marks & Spencer); Rugby's first cinema (Leon Vint's Picture Palace) opened on the old site with

On the left, along West Street, stood the Crown and Anchor public house next door to the shop selling 'home-made pork pies and sandwiches'.

In the 1830s, the Bull's sign spanned the High Street, but this was removed after a number of accidents in other parts of the county. The Bull provided food and accommodation as well as beer.

The Post Office has transferred to Brand Street; Briggs & Co., the Leicester Boot Company with its impressive gilded sign, and the Maypole Dairy, share its old premises.

This view from the top of Morgan Street shows the 72ft-high ornamental clock tower and three of the four roads that lead from the Circle.

The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.

Down the north side of the street are the post office, and the Great House, where William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham brought his 15-year-old son, Pitt the Younger, to recover from illness

The picture shows Friday Street, with the historic Plough Inn on the left, obscured from view by a large tree. The village store is on the right halfway down the road. The scene is similar today.

The main shopping centre has moved up the hill to Leigh Broadway but this High Street is still popular with its cafes, public houses and antiques shops.

When he stood as MP for Manchester in 1857 he was rejected, and an effigy of him was burnt in the street.

The lonely Vauxhall E Series (centre) drives towards Letchworth along Hitchin Street past the shops and inns.

On the shore, registered M26, is Annie, a 23-ton trawling ketch with a 45ft keel; owned by George Rowe of Harding Street, it carried 2 men and a boy.

Here it is at the northern end of Charles Street, the architects' and planners' vision of utopia a la 1950s and 60s; dominat- ing the photograph to the left, in a Midlands-Miesian style, is Epic

The previous estate manager had been his father James Fair, who had had the task of laying out the streets, making wider access roads and building cottages.

This attractive small town has many picturesque old houses in its narrow streets.

The Coln runs alongside the village street, where ducks waddle along the tops of low stone walls and spotted trout nose their way through the waving waterweeds.

In the foreground on the left is the Huntingdon Co-operative store, but overshadowing the whole of the street is the spire of Trinity Church.