The town's small traditional theatre and cinema, the Savoy Theatre, on Church Street, is believed to be the oldest working theatre in Wales.

With a few simple changes, Valjean revolutionizes the town's traditional black bead and bracelet production and gains a fortune, which he spends mostly for the town's good, paying for the maintenance ( including required staff ) of hospital beds, orphanages and schools.

Exacerbated by the decline of farming, the town's traditional role as a service centre for the surrounding agricultural region was eroded.

The town's rich traditional retailing mix of high quality independent stores is a tribute to retaining long-standing and loyal business while simultaneously building a new customer base with the continued attraction of some of the biggest names in national retailing.

By this time the textile industry had come to play an important part in the town's economics, in addition to the traditional boatbuilding and fishing ( particularly pilchards and crabs ).

Higganum now encompasses the town's traditional village center and remains the shopping and civic center for Haddam.

* Four Corners: This Delmar intersection of Delaware Avenue and Kenwood Avenue has served as the town's traditional center and is presently the location of several stores, banks, restaurants and the post office.

The town's name is said to come from either an edible tuber, a traditional staple food for the area's Native Americans, or a Native American name for red clover.

Indeed, the town's range of shops is refreshingly traditional ; free of charity shops, coffee shops and retail chains.

The Siyaha Festival, in honour of the town's traditional patron saint Sidi Sulayman, is unique to Siwa.

Each year, the neighbouring Scottish town of Coldstream marks the Battle of Flodden by a traditional horse-ride to the battlefield and then having a service to mark all those who perished during the fight during the town's " Civic Week "-held on the first week of August.

Not many people live in the traditional dugout style houses of old, although remnants of the town's past remain in the main street, with the cottages of old miners dug into the side of the hill in the main street still standing.

Due to the town's traditional seaside appearance, it has often been used as a setting for television programmes and films.

The market square today is still home to market stalls on each Saturday through the year and with the rise in the town's commercial retail sector in recent years, the market has shifted its traditional trading from agricultural produce to mainly textiles and home hardware.

Witney United FC retains its nickname " The Blanketmen " from the town's traditional trade.

It is this, the High Street which still seres as the towns primary commercial and business district-many of the town's traditional and chain stores are located in this area, and it is typically found to be the busiest part of the town during both the week and, in particular, the weekend.

Each year, during the first week of August, Coldstream hosts a traditional " Civic Week " where it includes historical aspects of the town's history such as the Torchlight procession and horse-rides to the Battle of Flodden battlefield.

A recent attempt by local traders to uproot the traditional fair from the town's Market Square has sparked outcry and protest amongst the local residents.

One of the major changes that has shaped the town's rapid development is the conversion of a traditional deep-water dock into a new marina housing some 245 yachts and cabin cruisers.

In 2008, a medieval-themed Historical Festival replaced the town's traditional festival week.

Most of the town's residents had been forced to move away by the closure of the tourist crossing and destruction of the town's traditional economy.

All events which are held in the main streets within the original town ( Broad Street, East Street, West Street ) require the permission of the New Alresford Town Trust ( NATT – a registered charity which preserves the town's traditional rights of access, to fairs and to street markets, preserves old documents and buildings, and runs a community minibus ).

In general, today towns can be differentiated from townships, villages, or hamlets on the basis of their economic character, in that most of a town's population will tend to derive their living from manufacturing industry, commerce, and public service rather than primary industry such as agriculture or related activities.

After 1610, the cloth industry declined but the wealth of the town was little affected until about 1640, when the activities of the Council were suspended and the town's population promptly fell by 20 %.

He built a sawmill on Sucker Creek ( now Oswego Creek ), the town's first industry.

In 1879 Roses suffered a devastating economic crisis through phylloxera, a pest of the grapevines, which destroyed the town's wine growing industry.

The tourist industry, which had long existed due to the town's spa, gained emphasis in the 1990s.

The surviving buildings grouped around Central Park are a continuing reminder of the wealth brought by the woolen industry and the town's aspirations to be a leading city in the state during the 19th century.

In the early 1900s the gathering and marketing of oysters became the town's leading industry.

This in combination with the tourist end of the industry makes it one of the town's largest supporters and invaluable to the local economy.

With coal-bearing bluffs immediately to the town's north and west, coal mining became a major industry in the town.

The majority of the town's folk worked in the sugar houses, in the fields or in support of the sugar industry.

In addition to agriculture, industry such as lumber milling and shipbuilding and, in the 20th century, factories making barrels and baskets for truck crops, and the canning of those crops, aided the town's growth.

Fishing, whaling and shipbuilding made up the town's early industry.

Today, tourism is the town's principal industry.

It is named for the town's rocky nature, which was better suited for mills and industry than for farming.

In the past it was home to a profitable Leather industry, to which a few old shoe factories in the town's older sections still testify.

Keyte is also responsible for the town's first industry of any sort, when he constructed a mill near his home on Muscle Fork Creek.

After the Stoddard glass industry ended in the early 1870s, the town's population declined ; by 1960, the census recorded 146 residents.

The town's population and business center would shift from Dover Point to Cochecho at the falls, where the river's drop of provided water power for industry.

Town hall, North Warren Central School, and most of the town's business, culture and industry is located in this hamlet.

These fishermen became the nucleus of the fishing industry that has remained an important part of the town's economy.

Much of the heritage and the town's name itself can be attributed to the cotton milling industry that followed.

The coal industry recovered and the town's population rebounded to 588, then fell again to 403 in 1990.