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Local gentry applied for an Act of Parliament to allow them to build a new town and to develop the harbour, and work began in 1807, when the grid of broad, airy streets was laid out.

Doncaster's electric street tramway opened on 2 June 1902; it operated fifteen open-top cars, each capable of carrying a total of 56 passengers.

Humphrey's Bakery, High Street, has been dated 1332.

Regardless of the unsympathetic way it clashes with the rest of the street, the bank goes all out to impress. The timber-framed building on the right was built in 1906 as a temperance club.

Along with the substantial numbers of parked cars along the verges, a laden lorry and a coach are advancing down the High Street, representative of the immense numbers of similar heavy vehicles which

We now move east to The Poultry, the street along the south side of the Council House.

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

This photograph looks eastwards towards the mediaeval town centre, but apart from reminding us that shop fascias were once sensitively designed, and that shopping streets were once pedestrian-friendly,

No 18 High Street (left, next to the fishmonger's) was a baker's run by Mr Brinkworth in the 1870s; it was a grocer's in 1890, run by Sarah Smith.

By now Hitchman's the chemists had been swept away: Montague Burton had built an art deco emporium (left) on the corner of Silver Street.

There has been a fair amount of rebuilding since the 1950s, as could be expected in such a busy commercial street, but Philadelphus Jeyes survives.

These baths are around the corner from where Throwley Road once turned to the north (it is now Throwley Way and acts as an inner relief road or High Street by-pass).

Frith's photographer looks south down the High Street from the Broadway.

This view looks from Godstone Road to the Plaistow Street-Newchapel Road junction.

The building on the left curving into Bath Street from the Square, with its many gables and ornate shop fronts (now a Chinese restaurant), replaced the Rising Sun Inn, a three-storey timber-framed

This view was taken looking north along Bridge Street towards the Market Place – indeed, in the left centre of the view we can see the cupola and stair tower of the Town Hall.

Still on the green, the camera points south to Steventon Road, the south lane from the High Street, already in 1955 closed to traffic.

When the bus station opened on 20 May 1963, much Castleford history was lost with the demolition of the Queen's Head Hotel and Wainwright Street.

The path emerges in Pound Street.

First to be completed was a pedestrian way linking Castle Street with the bus station. This was called Birdcage Walk, and once included an aviary housing tropical birds.

The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.

The resulting Treaty of Wedmore divided England into two: the Danes were ceded all the territory east of Watling Street, the 'Danelaw'.

The first house on the left is named The Old Post Office, and the Old Cobblers Shop is further up the street.

By now Hitchman's the chemists had been swept away: Montague Burton had built an art deco emporium (left) on the corner of Silver Street.