Excerpt from The Redemption of Edward Strahan: A Social Story

At the date when this story commences Middle-ham was not the thriving place it now is. The rising tide of manufacture had only touched its outskirts; the heart of the town remained much as it had been for the last hundred years. It possessed an old church, remarkable for no particular grace or dignity of architecture, a broad street which degenerated toward the north into a labyrinth of smaller streets, an old market-house, and a somewhat dilapidated Town Hall, which was never used for any public meetings, unless at the period of a general election. All the shops which did any considerable trade were situated in this one street, which was called High Street, and even there trade never showed any signs of external briskness.

There were one or two tolerably sized shops, but it was rarely that more than two persons were ever seen in them at the same time.

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