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Walsworth Road runs from the railway station to the centre of Hitchin. We might be forgiven for believing that this is a quiet backwater in a developing market town.

It was formed by the Arkle Beck, which rises high on Sleightholme Moor and passes through some lovely hamlets such as Arkle Town, Whaw and Langthwaite, where The Red Lion (centre) is a welcome hostelry

It is now a National Trust shop and information centre. Note the old petrol pump on the extreme right.

Its corresponding Church Centre has been established comparatively recently in the long building, across the road, beyond the parked Austin A35 motor car.

Here there is a sliver of sea (right of centre) and the plateau of the Golf Links on East Cliff.

Above the trees and below the houses in the centre, the busy Heads of the Valleys road passes very close to the canal.

There was not much of an audience to watch the troops as they marched past the Black Swan Hotel in the centre of the picture, although there were a few curious bystanders.

The climax of the High Street is the 1892 Cross Keys pub building in the centre of the photograph. To the right is the tall White Hart, completed in 1902.

The photographer is standing on Monks Hill, looking down the winding road that leads to the centre of the original village.

An attractive street lamp can be seen in the centre of the picture. It is interesting to see the policeman stopping to chat. A market house once stood in this square, close to a water pump.

Here, shoppers were offered an impressive choice of produce right in the centre of the city, just opposite the tram and trolleybus stops outside the town hall.

It now houses government offices, while Custom House Docks, originally developed at the same time as the Custom House, are now a financial services centre.

Today it is centred on a long main street.

The track along the centre of the street was for horse-drawn trams, which began operating in 1880.

The first floor has oriel windows, in the centre of which are the arms of Charles II. The plasterwork under each window represents Europe, Asia, Africa and America, the latter with a tobacco pipe.

All traffic has halted for the photographer, including the Great Eastern Railway bus (centre left).

The Hatfield Hotel (centre right) looks very modern for 1950, and contrasts with the Victorian buildings on Parade Road South. In the foreground is a Victorian sprung cart in the shape of a lifeboat.

The building at right angles to the road (centre) is the medieval Guildhall.

The twin-gabled cottages in the centre of this photograph are where the infamous plague first struck in 1665.

The oldest building in the village is the farm cottage in the centre, with its wedge shaped dairy - both still in use.

It was an important industrial centre, and coal was mined and shipped from here down the River Severn. Bricks were also produced locally, and clay was used to make china, tiles and clay pipes.

The view is very much the same today, although the grand, colonnaded entrance to The Black Lion Hotel (centre left) has been demolished.

Large boats such as the 'Luctor' (centre right) were once familiar sights here. The railway line extended to the quay so that coal trucks could be loaded directly from the coal ships.

Behind the boat with sails up (centre left) we can just see a row of bathing machines, which could be towed down to the water so that the bathers could step out of the machine straight into