After a few miles, we stopped on a middle-class street, fringed with shade trees, where there was a gap between houses at a bend in the road.
Radiating out from the main squares are pedestrianised streets fringed by shops and restaurants, while the tastefully restored old town, Vieux Lille, extends northwards along cobbled streets to the Canal de la Moyenne Deule.
Take a hike Continue from Light's Vision (8) up Jeffcott Street to reach Wellington Square, at the heart of a grid of tree-lined streets fringed by a homogeneous collection of buildings dating back to the 1880s, pre-dating England's Garden City movement by almost two decades.
With a $250,000 budget and new offices at Eighth Avenue and 37th Street, the Fringe operation bears little resemblance to the freewheeling, often chaotic event that began in 1996 on a shoestring budget in a handful of East Village and Lower East Side theaters.
One very good reason to venture beyond the Old Town lies down Leith Walk where at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall in Dalmeny Street, Forest Fringe is once again in action with a programme of free performance that celebrates the outfit's 10th year.
You'll see street-sweeping fringe, combinations of ivory and black, even designs that suggest spats.
The main street was fringed with car parks, supermarkets and fast-food joints.
While the BNP has met electoral disaster and the EDL remains a street-fighting fringe, we must stay alert to the uses of "reverse racism" – which, along with increasingly acceptable anti-immigrant discourse, provides false explanations for worsening economic conditions.
The wealthy and higher echelons of the society were placed in streets close to the temple, while the poorest were placed in the fringe streets.
