LACOCK, we have learned, was established for the estate workers of the abbey in the 13th century and the village streets form a square with High Street, Church Street East Street and West Street forming the sides.

According to notes left by longtime resident Peggy Butler, the villagers first knew the streets as Top, Middle, Bottom and West Streets.

We look at East Street this week and our archive picture is dated 1905.

In East Street at that time there was a baker who also sold tots of cherry brandy.

Like many businesses, he employed a boy to deliver bread to outlying cottages and farms, trudging up both Bowden Hill and Nash Hill with his cloth-covered basket.

The street also had a pork butchers, a cobbler and a tailor doing piecework, being paid for each piece of work he completed rather than earning a daily or hourly rate Walking along East Street you notice the houses have different floor levels and numbers of steps to accommodate the slope of the street.

Numbers 16 and 17 are Tudor in style with barge boarding. Some of the houses have extensive basements.

On the right is an 18th century lock-up where prisoners were put overnight before going before the magistrates. Further on the right is the Victorian Oddfellows Hall, now the village hall, built by the son of the builder who built the tanyard poor house.

You can also see the water pump, one of only a few in the village, where villagers collected their supplies before piped water arrived in the cottages in the 1930s.