The changing face of Newbury

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Local historian Tony Higgott has been chronicling the history of the town. Tony Higgott: "Newbury is in a very good position...it's on a sort of crossroads and a river crossing, and it's in the middle of the country. "In the 1960s it was still really a market town. "I think the big change really was with the road network change, when the relief road was build in the 1960s that took a lot of the traffic off the main shopping streets."