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The Co-op still had scattered shops along the street, alongside Lillian Worrall (dresses for smart ladies) and H Winstone (tobaccos) with their elaborate Abdullah sign for Turkish cigarettes.

The Co-op still had scattered shops along the street, alongside Lillian Worrall (dresses for smart ladies) and H Winstone (tobaccos) with their elaborate Abdullah sign for Turkish cigarettes.

We have now passed through Stonebow into the southern part of the High Street, which grew up along the old Roman road south of the walled city.

Although it is as well-designed as a high rise building can be in a small-scale setting, the twelve-storey Civic Centre lurks menacingly just round the corner in Silver Street.

In this view the northern wing, which turns the corner into Bridge Street, is still virtually brand new.

Built in 1782 to designs by Thomas Baldwin, Somersetshire Buildings remain the most elegant and ornate in the street; the bowed centre house is a total contrast to the regular flat fronts of the other

From Terrace Walk, York Street passes the rear of the Roman Baths, screened by the rusticated walls and corner pavilion added by Brydon in the 1890s.

This popular public house in Goring Street was formerly known as The Bull's Head; the old sign, which hung over the door for years, was removed by the brewery and transferred to a public house in East

As we leave the station, the first street we see is Dorridge Road. Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.

It is the oldest existing building on the High Street, the earliest part of it dating from around 1400. In its time it has been a farm, a carrier's business and an antique shop.

These street lamps appeared in 1897.

Until the 1930s, trams ran along Prestbury High Street en route to the top of Cleeve Hill. A workman was employed to grease the rails at the sharp bend just out of sight in the distance.

Horse-drawn trams, hackney carriages and heavy-wheeled goods carts rattle along the stone setts of Dale Street, passing some of the city's major financial and commercial buildings.

It could seat up to 1,750 people and replaced a smaller chapel in Hammerton Street, which was sold to the Baptists.

Lord Street was laid out in the 1820s, the buildings along it displaying a wonderful medley of architectural styles, but apart from stone setts and tram lines, its general appearance has, perhaps, changed

At the far end of the street, the impressive church-like building is actually the Town Hall, designed in the Gothic style by Sir George Gilbert Scott and completed in 1867.

Even in the humbler areas of town the same high standards of planning were applied, and wide, uncluttered streets and pavements are a refreshing contrast to the standards favoured by today's developers

At the top of the street is St Paul's Church, there since 1230, but considerably rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century.

Opposite on the corner of Bridge Street is the shop run by Len Mylott in the 1950s.

This view of the village square, complete with its war memorial, shows the winding nature of the main village street; a coach is on its way to Chesterfield, 10 miles away to the west.

Many of the houses along this street feature the locally made brown bricks.

This is at the end of the village street, cut off by the bypass which nearly runs between the two 'goal posts' (left) - this idyllic view cannot be seen today.

At the south end of the street is a small green, with the 1964 Best Kept Village sign.

Immediately south- west of the village and approached via Church Street is Langold Country Park, dominated by a fine lake.