The downhill glide ends by jamming you into a scene almost laughably dense and quaint. Church Street looks as if it comes to an end, among stone turrets and timber-framed windows; actually it makes a right-angle turn.

On the left is an archway, and straight in front another passage gives a glimpse of the sea. But if you're in a vehicle you have to hurry on around the corner.

See the wide arched window just to the right of the passageway? It's not easy for large vehicles to steer safely through narrow crooked streets like this, and quite frequently a tall lorry knocks a piece off a cornice, and then scaffolding goes up while the repairs are being done, and the street has to be closed to traffic for a few days. One day in 2000 a bus careering down the last stretch of the long hill lost its brakes—imagine yourself the panicking driver!—and ended stuck through that window. A woman who worked at a desk in the room chanced to be away that day, and nobody was hurt. This happened on a Saturday; the scaffolding for the previous set of repairs had been taken down on Friday. For several days the coach was the only thing holding the building up. Not only the arches of the windows were rebuilt, but the wall and windows above them.

The arched windows hadn't been there very long. Earlier, there were grilles in front of an open market under the upper structure, which is the Guildhall.