The men and women marched up the medieval high street to flag waving and applause from the crowds.

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"It is like the rebirth of the medieval high street, " explains Dixon.

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Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last month, Sir Terry Leahy also called some High Streets "medieval, " saying the way people lived their lives had changed.

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Among the exhibits at Crossrail's visitor information centre in St Giles High Street are medieval human bones found at Liverpool Street, a rare amber find and a piece of mammoth jaw bone.

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The Banquet Hall, whose 70-foot-high barrel-vaulted ceiling evokes medieval grandeur, is among the most astonishing spaces.

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At 78ft (24m) high, York Minster's Great East Window is the UK's largest medieval stained glass window.

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