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Note the different styles of street lights in this view. There are at least three on the right-hand side, and on the left there are the remains of gaslights.

Byworth is a very pretty village with a single winding street a mile east of Petworth; it is set on hilly ground above a small stream flowing in a steep valley towards the Rother.

Originally High Street, its approach from the ford across the Roach was via Bull Brow. This old route to Yorkshire was widened in 1897 when the building on the left was demolished.

Market Square is the open area in front of the Town Hall, and Market Street runs to the left. The locals liked the large Tuscan portico and its four plain columns.

Trindle Road runs across the centre of the picture, whilst the corner of Hall Street can be seen centre right.

Here we see another view of the street, which was cut in early Victorian times to become a channel of trade and industry. The vista extends to Cromac.

The approach to it, Ann Street, was the second most important thoroughfare; beyond the bridge it took the name Bridge End.

The slate-hung buildings are 11 and 13 High Street, two of the oldest in town.

New streets began to be laid out as the town's population increased with the influx of new workers.

Around Ludlow South Along The River Teme Tenbury Wells, Teme Street 1898 Known in the past only as Tenbury, the Wells in its name was added in the late 19th century as a deliberate marketing

Bath Lane off East Street, originally called Bathing House Lane, is so named because it used to lead down to a bathing house that was located by the side of the creek.

Interestingly, the four columns seen in our picture were taken to Knutsford to await use in another building, and that is where they are today - behind the King's Coffee House in King Street, Knutsford

The picture is eastwards from the Square into Bridge Street (left), where Obadiah Bird was the grocer.

Parallel to Stratford Road and to the south of it is one of the grid of streets that were laid out for the town from the 1840s, starting at the east and then expanding westward as land was released

The camera looks east down the High Street, which opens onto Church Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth's origins lay in its medieval weekly market and annual fair.

This fine pink granite church, mainly of the 15th century, is well sited at the head of Church Street. Its solid clasping buttressed and battlemented tower rises in four stages.

On the far left is the Regent Street Primitive Methodist church; it had been built here in 1876 to replace two former chapels on the same site of 1849 and 1863.

Both clocks have been taken away from this busy shopping street, but Milletts Army and Navy Store (right) is still there.

The shoes were made just round the corner in Market Street until the 1930s.

The drama began with proposals for a relief road that would take traffic away from the High Street to make it a more inviting shopping environment.

However, by 1881 traders were complaining that Commercial Street was in a disgusting state. It was not improved until 1903, when wooden blocks were used on the roads to keep the noise down.

The leafy High Street rises away from the village to become the main road to Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

The Town Hall, standing in the middle of the High Street, was given by Lawrence Hyde, first Earl of Rochester, in 1700. Restored in 1889, it was presented to the town by Lady Meux in 1906.

Another quiet day in the High Street; perhaps the photograph was taken on a Wednesday, which was early closing day.