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The Society merged with the Chelmsford Star Co-op, and now occupies a prestigious site in the George Yard shopping centre.

Deep shadows engulf the Greyhound Hotel (left), with the Town Hall behind, in this lunchtime view westwards to Colmer`s Hill (centre).

shopping streets were modernised, but parts survived into modern times, when older buildings are more appreciated; however, the suburbs and absorbed villages make the effort of getting into the town centre

The two old houses in the centre show how piecemeal were the alterations carried out by various owners down the centuries: below each has a wall of stone rubble, and above at least two courses of brick

The lintels to the right of the picture have been shaped, with mortises beaten into the stone; the upright stone to the centre right has been vertically tapered to avoid optical distortion.

This view is taken from south of the Reigate Road and Brighton Road junction, with Brighton Road running uphill in the centre of the view.

The view is northwards from North Street, down to the sign of the former Lord Nelson public house (centre).

In the centre is the old lifeboat house with its slipway, built in 1903.

This is part of Old Leigh, with the railway on the right and the sea behind the buildings on the left.The main shopping centre has moved up the hill to Leigh Broadway but this High Street is still

To the far left is the old grammar school in Croston Road erected in 1756, which became an arts centre.

Here the visible semi-detached houses are No 39 (right of centre) to No 45 (far right).

The red-brick town hall (centre left) was erected in 1728 in the market place on the site of an ancient chapel of St Thomas à Becket.

Centre, on the horizon, is All Hallows Church, and near it is Hart House.

The shops and stores on the left were demolished in the last decade to make way for the new Frenchgate shopping centre.

We look north-eastwards, above the gable-end of the Bay Private Hotel (centre right), to the Spittles and Black Ven.

Further along the south side of the street (left of centre) is the Old Inn.

The closest parked cars on each side are Humbers, with a Riley 9 further along the north side of the street (centre).

On the right, William Jenkins, the proprietor of Claypits Pottery, holds a jug ready for his nephew Tom Jenkins (centre) to decorate – Tom was to take over the business in 1939.

The local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church (centre) rely on simple, but excellent, details for effect - no incongruous plastic windows and doors here.

When the Swan Centre was built, the library moved to occupy a site on the first floor, since when the issue of books has increased and provisions for modern technology have made it a busy place.

The shop under the blind (left) is no longer a shop, but the white house (centre) is still there.

The outline of the three main entrance arches marks the centre of the building.

The bank is now the Nat West, and beyond the right-hand buildings is the modern Fernbank Shopping Centre.

In the centre of the building is an interesting octagonal lantern with the royal coat of arms above the doorway.