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This row of three cottages is in Church Street. They are set slightly below road level, and are reached by steps down. The thatch remains in excellent condition, and so do the porches.

Saddlers Row remains intact, apart from the tall chimney, but the saddler has gone - it is now an antique shop - and Pellett's is now a restaurant.

The smithy, opposite, has given way to a garage; and the row of cottages (with a sign saying 'Cyclist's Rest') are long-since demolished.

The centre of Steyning includes rows of picturesque gabled houses and period buildings.

The Rows continue around the corner and into Watergate Street. Here, just behind the horse, it is possible to see one of the many staircases that give access to the upper floor.

The old-style sign for Boots the chemists is in the centre of the left-hand row. J

Branscombe is fortunate indeed that its forge has survived as a working building – it is now owned by the National Trust.

Built in the 1750s, Martock's Market House originally held a row of shambles or butchers' shops.

This view of High Row looks towards Bondgate. Over on the left is a branch of the Home & Colonial Stores, which, like Freeman, Hardy & Willis, was one of the early high street chains.

The petrol station, with pumps delivering fuel from different suppliers, has been replaced by houses, but the Pedlar still surveys the rows of Georgian houses and shops from the town sign.

This scenic stretch of the Thames, overlooked by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as grandstands

Many people avoided paying the tolls on the bridge by rowing coracles across the river. It was here, too, that a boy named Matthew Webb learnt to swim.

No riverside town would be complete without a rowing club, and Twickenham Rowing Club was founded in 1860.

This row of quite modern-looking cottages at Bank Top, lying behind a neatly cultivated garden plot was, in fact, built in 1833.

The King William IV public house, dating from 1862, is the first in a row of noteworthy buildings in Vantorts Road.

In the foreground, some young ladies appear to be trying their hands at rowing, whilst midstream we have what is more commonly associated with the river in Cambridge: punters.

Cambridge has a long history of rowing. The River Cam itself is not wide enough for conventional races, so races called 'Bumps' are held.

Other similar local names are Fish Street and Butcher Row. Sometimes names changed. Who would want to live in Swine Street, no matter how smart the houses?

Good Friday and Easter Monday would see a miniature fair—stalls for refreshments, model yacht racing on the reservoir, rowing boats for hire, bowls and so on.

The dinghy on the left has an outboard motor - useful when one tires of rowing! The ornamental fish on the prow of the large motor cruiser is the emblem of the boatyard.

Cambridge has a long history of rowing. Because the River Cam itself is not wide enough for conventional races, races called 'Bumps' are held.

We can see the sign for the Black Lion hotel on the last building in the row. The weatherboarded cottages nearby are known as Black Lion Cottages.

Dobwalls now suffers from incessant heavy traffic in both directions, and is in desperate need of a by-pass.

There is now plenty of traffic on the street. A sign in the middle of the row of buildings on the left is for the library.