AS Bamber used to say, here’s your starter for ten. Which Worcester thoroughfare was at one time considered to be among the finest streets in Europe? Not High Street, not Friar Street, not The Shambles, pause for drum roll, it was Foregate Street. By the end of the 18th century, and with England in its Georgian hey-day, the quarter mile or so length of road from the end of The Foregate north to the junction with Castle Street, was in its prime. Even today it is the street in the city richest in Georgian remains. Which was quite a transformation from what had gone on before. In Tudor times the highway was lined by cottages and small buildings, but nearly all of those were destroyed as defences were prepared for the Civil War siege of Worcester in 1646.