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built upon the river bank. A new Market Hall was to be built on one side of the road, supported by the arches. The town's slaughterhouses or "shambles" would be sited beneath the arches, and the waste from them would drain directly into the river. Maddox is also believed to have been responsible for
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went through at a gallop. Her apron strings were caught in one of the horses' harnesses, and she was dragged along the ground for some distance. Escaping serious injury, she grabbed the coachman's whip, knocked out some of his teeth with the handle, and marched back to her shop to begin organising a
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petition for a new road to be built to bypass Church Street. The
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and the post office. It was intended that the library would also move in but that remained at the Shire Hall. Apart from the museum and post office, the remaining parts of the building have at various times housed the
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