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The playground was the street, with the girls allowed on the south side, the boys on the north side near the Black Bull.

Children of the famous Gurney family (one of the founders of Barclays' Bank) stayed in lodgings in this street, on the site of the present Boots the chemist.

It stands on the old Stane Street, and has been known as a resting-place for travellers for perhaps nearly a thousand years. Early evidence of a building on this site dates from 1278.

Coronation Day in 1953 was celebrated with street parties, sports events and luncheons for the elderly.

Certainly the aldermen of Wycombe played a big role in securing and building the road; the trustees held their first meeting at the Red Lion in the High Street.

Copper mining in the 18th century brought an influx of workers into this quiet spot just to the east of Scotch Corner on the Roman Watling Street.

W G Harrison, who would now have two shops on the High Street.

A Town Hall with a clock was built at a cost of £1,215 8s 10d on land at the northern end of South Street and opened without ceremony in 1835.

The busy A59 road now divides Gisburn, but it still has its cobbled forecourts and white cottages in the main street. Here we will find the Ribblesdale Arms.

The station, opened in 1881, was situated off Newport Street near the junction with Devizes Road.

The town also acquired that other symbol of Georgian respectability and status: Assembly Rooms, in Bell Street.

A survey of the manor in the late 17th century contains few references to the High Street and this indicates that the copyhold land had been converted into freehold.

Yet the north of the county is decidedly rolling, and a brisk walk up Halstead High Street or Maldon's Market Hill has been known to change the mind of many a disbeliever.

Built in 1880, it fulfilled this role until 1936 when the mail and counter services were moved to Quay Street.

The buses on Quay Street are probably Western National service buses. The double-decker shows an advertisement for Hatcher's, a department store in Taunton.

Built in the late 18th century as the residence of Dr Bird, the house, like Sunnyfield House, had grounds stretching back to the North Bank Lane, now known as Bolckow Street/Park Lane (it was on

The river is still there today, running under Penny Street and Salford.

The Royal Exchange dominates Exchange Street, which starts where the square becomes narrower.

The town's third dock, it extended from the corner of St Nicholas Churchyard to Moor Street; the land was provided by the Corporation.

He also built a village school, the parish church, the vicarage and the row of terraced cottages in Church Street.

The first of the new houses were built at Longsowerby and Bousteads Grassing to the ENGLISH STREET IN THE 1920s TL00038 (Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery) Many of the properties shown on the left-hand-side

Some, like Trayton Peter Pagden and his brother Stephen, had come up from Sussex at the same time as Dorling; they ran a brewery in Church Street. Others were from long-established families.

Since 1838 Fleetwood had had a theatrical pavilion in Dock Street, and a daily conveyance at Poulton met the Fylde Union coach to and from Fleetwood's new bathing station, but it did not have a pier.

There have been attempts through the years to move the fair out of the streets but this would lessen its unique appeal.