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Silver Street is typical of the narrow winding streets that lead to the focal point of the city, the Market Square.

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique counrty house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

The crews of the fishing boats prepare to hoist sail once they have cleared Hartlepool.

Bell Street, part of the original town of Sawbridgeworth, runs from London road eastwards towards the church and the school.

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath. The 14th-century church of St Peter has an impressive tower. Ardingly College, situated nearby, is a notable Public School.

It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tailpole. The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.

Rossall Hall, Peter Hesketh's ancestral home, became Rossall School on 22 August 1844.

Here we have a closer view of the quiet main street; note the sign of the Golden Cocker Café by the street lamp.

We can see from the size of the bus queues that private car ownership was still something of a novelty. In 1954, sales of new cars in the UK totalled 394,362, with just 4660 imported cars.

Carter and cart-horse head up Main Street in a view across to the plateau of Langdon Hill (centre). Behind them is the gable- end of the Farmery and Hope Cottage.

As the name of the colliery would indicate this pit is actually in the Ely Valley and at the time of the Frith photograph would be one of the few still in full production.

The back of the Crown Inn can just be seen in the centre, where Station Road becomes Hinckley Road, curving south past the parish church, and on to Nailstone and Market Bosworth.

The present church of St Leonard was begun in 1650 but has continued to be altered, with Gothic style windows in 1843, the raising of the roof and the addition of a north aisle in the 1860s.

Frith's photographer was looking west away from the Council House, with Long Row on the right.

Opened in 1928, it replaced a previous Fortune of War (now a printer's on the Billericay road), which had itself been founded, supposedly, by a soldier returning from the Napoleonic Wars.

The tower of St Wilfrid's Church had to be the perch of the photographer for him to take this shot.

Easneye, originally called Isneye, was the home of the Buxton family after 1866, when Thomas Fowell Buxton purchased the estate - it comprised thick woodland.

In 1839, during a period of industrial depression and political unrest, it was the scene of a riot which lasted for five days until troops restored order.

Next to an 18th century house of some interest, the post office, along with the pub, was the focal point of village life.

To its left and out of view are the late 1880s gables of the Bedford Rowing Club.

A year after a fire razed most of Bungay to the ground in 1688, the Butter Cross was built to commemorate it.

Upper Beeding is in effect a suburb of Bramber. It is mostly nondescript, apart from its parish church at the north end, overlooking the river.

Opened in 1928, it replaced a previous Fortune of War (now a printer's on the Billericay road), which had itself been founded, supposedly, by a soldier returning from the Napoleonic Wars.

Lancaster's beautiful canal, with its magnificent sea views of Morecambe Bay, was originally the vision of the factory owners of the locality, who were eager to connect their mills with the national canal