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Nowadays the by-passed winding High Street is again peaceful.

Here on the porte cochere, with the best view of the High Street, is the renowned Houghton Fishing Club's meeting room.

This street scene shows some fine red brick, tile-hung, ivy-clad houses with beautiful old chimneys, lining the left-hand side of the road.

This charming study shows the lower part of the High Street on a breezy summer's day.

A conspicuously clean- looking street scene with only the faintest trace of horses. Loveday & Sons, the jewellers, have now occupied their shop at Baddow Road corner for over a century.

The street lamp in this picture is less decorative than the one in the earlier view.

Also on Town Street was the Salvation Army, tithe cottages for the local clergy, and, grouped around the old Arcade, the post office, bank, bakers, florists and cobblers.

This 1883 church replaced the old Bell Chapel at the end of Town Street on the Green, which was becoming too small for the congregation.

Woburn Street enters Market Place from the west and has more vernacular houses and cottages along each side.

This imposing, ornate gateway once stood where the Strand becomes Fleet Street, and was erected in 1672 to a design by Wren.The effigies portray Stuart monarchs.

Townsend was an early name for this part of Kingswinford, which is at one end of the High Street, and thus the 'town's end'.

This interesting picture of the village street and the post office shows the village postman about to mount his bicycle.

As we look south down High Street we can see that many of the buildings survive today, including the dormered building on the far left.

This view of the unpaved main crossroads at High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old coaching inn, The

The western section of the High Street (viewed here from the forecourt of The Spread Eagle) is dominated by the clock tower built by Butler and Hedge in 1847-48.

This view looks south-west along the High Street. Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

The centre has suffered extensive redevelopment, nowhere more so than in this part of Middle Street; not a single building shown in the photograph survives, and the left side is now the shopping

Benedict Street leads west to Glastonbury's other surviving medieval parish church. It was rebuilt in about 1520 by Abbot Bere.

It is nostalgic to see the cars parked in the street - the Morris Minor and mini- vans for example - and no yellow lines and no parking meters. Those were halcyon days.

We are looking eastwards along Bridge Street to the Buddle Bridge (centre right) over the River Lim.

From the churchyard The Street, a cul-de-sac, leads to the crossroads and the popular Yew Tree Inn, the building with the porch on the left, its Victorian brickwork now painted white.

The Bute Arms (further down the street on the left) gets its name from the Marquises of Bute, great landowners in South Wales and important nationally.

Beyond the shops are the residential houses of Hartington Street. On the left is H Ledgerwood's, a grocer's.

The New Inn is a welcome haven in the centre of the small village, with its own car park at the side allowing calling motorists to leave the narrow street.