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Facing the churchyard on the north side of Church Street is the oldest building in the King's School, built just before 1528 as a chantry school.

The Bell Inn (now the Bell and Steelyard) stands in New Street. The covered hoist is a steelyard, used for weighing grain wagons from the early 17th century to the 1880s.

In the High Street, the house (centre left) will soon be the shop of Henry Stile, a gent's outfitter's; in the centre are the Tiger's Head (landlord Edward Smith), and the gabled Boot Stores of 1905.

A team of plough horses wait quietly in the village street outside the Carrier's Arms.

A scattering of mansions, cottages, and odds and ends of streets nestling beneath a limestone cliff or half hidden away among wooded slopes, this tiny Torquay of Lancashire has, as yet, escaped the notice

The Bell Inn (now the Bell and Steelyard) stands in New Street. The covered hoist is a steelyard, used for weighing grain wagons from the early 17th century to the 1880s.

This is Chorley's main street, the A6, Lancashire's main north to south road; it used to get very busy in the summer.

The facade is so hemmed in by the street and the buildings opposite that it could never achieve the visual impact its architects would have wished for.

Electric street tramcars had been introduced in 1899; in this picture we have a selection of single-deckers and open-top double-deckers.

We are looking east towards the town centre; the Market House dome is just visible at the end of the street.

By 1903, however, production had ceased, the population had dropped back to under 6,000, and traders were having a thin time of it - look at the empty streets here.

Leading away from the Market Place (the Market House is visible in the distance) is Silver Street. The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view.

Greenock was the birthplace, in 1736, of James Watt, who was born in a house on Dalrymple Street.

The clock on Botley's Market Hall is still a familiar landmark in the High Street. Just this side of it can be seen the premises of Botley Garages, now a sports shop and a hairdresser's.

This view looks north towards the Market Place and captures well the character of this market town, most of whose 19th- and late 18th-century buildings still line the streets.

About half the buildings in the High Street area are 18th-century or earlier, although several have been disguised externally.

A beamed and peg tiled old court house still stands in the main street not far from the White Hart pub, right.

Between the High Street and the Beach village, where the fishing community lived, were 12 narrow alleys, known as Scores.

Behind the thatched cottage in Church Street, where the author's great-uncle and great-aunt lived in the late 19th century, is the castle mound built in 1066-71 by William Mallet.

The cattle market was off Crow Street, adjacent to the ancient market place. Between the 1930s and 1970s this was one of the largest pig markets in the county.

This scene suggests that before the advent of modern tourism there was little to disturb the peace, and a dog could safely wander the streets without fear of traffic.

This view up St Margaret's Street shows two fine Georgian buildings: the one on the left has a Tuscan-columned doorway, and the one on the right is Westbury House.

This photograph was taken at the corner of Sambourne Road looking towards Carter's Corner, Nos 50–54A High Street and No 2 Portway, recently restored by the Warminster Preservation Trust.

The street is lined with a medley of newly-constructed buildings.