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St Peter's was the name of this church, which gave Church Street its name. Built in 1704, St Peter's was a very popular church and well attended.

In April 1936, the owners of the Half Moon Hotel purchased the neighbouring premises of Dingley's, drapers, outfitters, milliners and hosiers, and soon the new building had been redesigned

On the left, Shell and Exide petrol pumps, a sign for Park Drive cigarettes, and new-style windows fitted into dwellings indicate progress.

Two motor cars are visible, but few street markings and signs, apart from the one on the right by the bow-windowed shop in the stone-built terrace.

He had moved across the leafy street from the New Inn, which in his time as landlord was known as the Duke of Wellington.

HIGH on the hill at the top of Margate High Street is the parish church of St John the Baptist, which has served generations of Margatonians for nearly 1000 years (see 27445).

The buildings on the right made way for new ones at the entrance to High Street in the 1950s. Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

In the south-west corner of the Garden of Remembrance, the Norman Gate gives access from the High Street.

In celebration of the new crossing that carried the railway over the river, the 18th-century sandstone inn we see here was renamed The Severn Bridge Hotel in 1879.

The chemist moved from No 49 High Street to the shop on the left in 1967.

South Street, extending over the River Wey Navigation to the station, did not exist until after the arrival of the railway in the town in 1848-1849.

When this view was taken, Manchester Road was a much more important shopping street than it is today.

In the High Street there are a few parked cars, but no pedestrians, apart from the two women and a child in the doorway on the right.

Looking down the main street, we see the old post office (right), now two cottages. The new post office is in the Bull Inn, to the right, next to the tin-roofed church of St Thomas.

Poole's population grew substantially during the 20th century as new industries arrived to supplement the declining merchant trade.

A meeting house was established in West Street in 1719, which survived until 1834.

Before the advent of the car moved shoppers to out-of- town stores, main streets such as this displayed a rich multiplicity of goods, with regional shops trading beside the more well-known

This is part of Old Leigh, with the railway on the right and the sea behind the buildings on the left.The main shopping centre has moved up the hill to Leigh Broadway but this High Street is still

The prominent non-conformist preacher Reverend Rowland Hill and his congregation originally had their almshouses built in Hill Street, Blackfriars in 1811 to provide comfortable accommodation for 'respectable

The coming of the railway to Broxbourne in 1840 had further stimulated the growth of the village, and demand from London-bound commuters heading for Liverpool Street and St.

The challenge was met by new boarding houses, tall and each able to take in several families. They were built in rows.

A lone policeman in his high-buttoned tunic directs traffic emerging from the Ewell Road to cross the junction with Station Way, The Broadway and the High Street.

Although the original village green is away to the south, along the High Street it is the superbly spacious circular underground station by Charles Holden, and the grassy roundabout, that create a new

The building on the right, just before the King Street junction, was the Jubilee Institute.