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Middle Street, DEAL, CT14 6JX

These were the Image, which were taking place in February 2017.

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Looking north along Middle Street where Griffin Street crosses it. Deal Conservation area.

It is almost dusk on a December afternoon and Middle Street, in this view completely devoid of motor vehicles, is peaceful and atmospheric. This is part of the Deal Middle Street conservation area comprising a network of tightly packed Georgian houses that were once notorious for smuggling activity.

This is the view looking along Middle Street in Deal. The next road on the left is New Street. It is all part of the Middle Street Deal Conservation Area, which in 1968 was the first Conservation Area in Kent to be designated. Its distinctive character is typified by the central axis of mainly Georgian terraced houses clustered around Middle Street and extending up to High Street or Beach Street. The press gang operated around these streets and smugglers' hiding places are still being found in local houses. The streets once thronged with soldiers, sailors and fishermen. Almost every building was either a pub, a lodging house or a brothel. As it was the boatmen's area, the street was crowded with pilots, net-makers, sail-makers, rope-makers and boatbuilders. Most of the numerous pubs have closed but many of the old inns survive as private houses and bear the original pub names - the Deal Cutter and the Scarborough Cat for example.

Looking south between New Street and Farrier Street, in the Conservation Area of Deal. "Tally Ho" (on the left with a red door) has the date painted on - circa 1794.

This is the view down Middle Street in Deal, with New Street the next turning on the right. It is all part of the Middle Street Deal Conservation Area, which in 1968 was the first Conservation Area in Kent to be designated. Its distinctive character is typified by the central axis of mainly Georgian terraced houses clustered around Middle Street and extending up to High Street or Beach Street. The press gang operated around these streets and smugglers' hiding places are still being found in local houses. The streets once thronged with soldiers, sailors and fishermen. Almost every building was either a pub, a lodging house or a brothel. As it was the boatmen's area, the street was crowded with pilots, net-makers, sail-makers, rope-makers and boatbuilders. Most of the numerous pubs have closed but many of the old inns survive as private houses and bear the original pub names - the Deal Cutter and the Scarborough Cat for example. On this bitterly cold January evening the narrow lanes around Middle Street were quiet and very atmospheric.

Something of the atmosphere of this part of Deal can be gauged from this view of Middle Street where it crosses Farrier Street. This was once a notorious area for smuggling but all seems quiet and law-abiding now. The Old Bakery on the immediate right is a holiday cottage.