EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SHOPS 



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FlG. 217. Shops, Montpellier, Cheltenham. 



the accompanying engraving of Milsom Street (Fig. 211) gives 

 a good idea of its street architecture, devoted partly to residential 

 purposes and partly to business premises. This mixture of 

 dwellings and shops is still met with in old-fashioned towns, 

 where the principal streets are made up of houses some large 

 and some small interspersed with shops and inns. But in places 



