The High Street was the only thoroughfare
that could actually be called a “Street”. 
Any other mode of travelling
from one place to another 
was just a lane or way or road
or mews or passage or court or close.

But Street held that special connotation
that it was something particularly more.

The Village folk considered that
the High Street was the Important place
for any sort of transaction. 
Whether it be financial or otherwise. 
To be seen or greeted on the Street
meant a stability in the community.

Thus every afternoon
on Wickshaw High Street
around a quarter to two,
the Village came alive.
Everyone had an excuse
just to say “How do you do?”

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The Butcher
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