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Middle Street
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Chapel Street
Middle Street
Oak Street
Brewer Street
Middle Street




Chapel St Deal
Chapel Street - the Royal Hotel can be glimpsed over the roof of the garage in the centre

Chapel Street connects Middle Street with the Sea Front (Beach Street) where it curves inland around the Royal Hotel.  The cream-coloured building jutting out into the road from the left is the Royal Hotel garage - an eyesore from the houses opposite!  The upper part of the hotel, which has recently been refurbished, can be seen over the roof.

The Royal Hotel is the only building remaining on the eastern side of Beach Street.   There used to be several buildings along the beach, but the sea has claimed the rest.

Middle Street
Middle Street looking north from Chapel Street - the pale yellow building on the right is at the junction with Oak Street

The building in the centre of the block on the right is being demolished.  These buildings are used by local builders as workshops and storage.

Oak Street
Oak Street - the Star & Garter Hotel is at the top on the left.

Oak Street connects the High Street (formerly Lower Street) with Beach Street, crossing Middle Street a few yards north of Chapel Street.  A few yards to the left (north) of this junction is a popular fish and chip restaurant.  On the opposite side of Middle Street, on the corner of the western part of Oak Street stood the Royal Oak Hotel, now a residents' car park.

This view has changed recently - the old workshop on the right has been partly demolished and converted into a house and another house has been built on the vacant corner plot.

This page shows the streets linking Middle Street to the Sea Front, from Chapel Street to Brewer Street.  Also, views of Middle Street looking north from each of the junctions.

A few yards north of Oak Street is Brewer Street.

Brewer Street
Brewer Street - this street bends left and right, so you cannot see the other end.

The building on the right, originally a National School (infants), later the "Feed My Lambs" nursery, is now a doctor's surgery.  Just out of site round the bend, on the right hand side of the street, stood the Soup Kitchen (1870s).  Opposite the top of the street on the seaward-side of Beach Street were the Royal Adelaide Baths.

Just north of the brown-coloured building on the left (once the Star Inn) is a doorway in a garden wall, with a weather-vane above it.  This is the entrance to Vane House.  If you are lucky enough to find the door open, you will be rewarded with a glimpse into a beautifully filled courtyard garden.

A little farther up on the right is another of the houses once occupied by June's ancestors - Fleet House.  It stands back a little from the road and has a ground-floor extension at an angle across the pavement, linking to the house next door.

Middle Street
Middle Street looking north from Brewer Street.

The building with the corner door in the centre of the picture marks the junction with Coppin Street.