On the Manor Street side, we have the Co-Op bakery and then a ‘Tudor style’ row including ‘Barnards’ where you could get your bike mended and accumulators re-charged. Moving on, the Parish Church of St Peter is just past Castle Street, which includes several shops and the main Boys School premises. Past the ironmongers and ‘Incents’ cafe, Chesham Road appears.

As we are now entering the Town Centre proper, we will stick to the south-west side and save the other side for another day.

Between Chesham Road and Prince Edward Street, we have three hotels and two shoe shops. Up Prince Edward Street, is Victoria School primary school which I attend with the library on the right hand side and yet another hardware shop on the corner. Just past the Civic Centre is Norman Clark who has his electrical store selling everything from records to washing machines. The W H Smith shop and library is next door before the solicitors and chemists. Yet another green grocers before we reach the bank and police station. Having reached the centre of town, you can take your life in your hands and jump on the air switches controlling the traffic lights to change them or just wait for a break in the traffic. Crossing straight over, we pass more banks, men's outfitters, a dentist and we come across the Co-Op. You can buy just about anything here and stretches from Cowper Road to the main office entrance.

The other side of Cowper Road is the Alms Houses and the gas showrooms. Walking on, a fine terrace of houses is neatly slotted in before yet another public house. Park View Road housed an inferior school (to Victoria) called, well, Park View School. On the corner, yet another hardware store, a couple of private houses with the Rural Council offices on the corner of Boxwell Road and another pub on the other corner. A mechanic had his workshop (also selling petrol if I remember correctly) a couple of doors away and the Quaker building lay well back. Donald Lockhart had his offices next, with a large yard behind (off Kitsbury Road). The best fish monger in town was nearby before arriving at Kitsbury Road. Kitsbury Parade was a row of shops next, and I must confess, I can only remember the ‘Candy Box’, I can’t imagine why! Cross Oak Road is next with Underhill & Young on the corner. For reasons best known to myself, we will go up Cross Oak Road, turn right along West Road, turn left into Queens Road and right into Shrublands Road. You have just passed through a typical residential area of the town. Walking along Shrublands Road, East meadow is on your right and some fine examples of housing on your left. At the end of East meadow, the footpath goes down a nice line of conker trees to the main road. Opposite this path is the entrance to a nice orchard which is well worth trying to get into during the apple season for some reason. On the right is a field of corn and before the first houses on the new estate. On the left is Chiltern Corner and Chiltern Close (telephone box on corner) and as I live just up the next hill to your left, I will leave you to carry on along the road until you met Durrants Lane where you should recognise your mode of transport still were you left it a couple of hours ago.