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Now all of that has changed, and so has Bridge Street, for it has virtually all been knocked down for redevelopment. On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider.

This photograph is taken further down Market Street.

We are looking down from the Triangle, and we can see the Freeman, Hardy & Willis shoe shop on the left, AJ Perham's Hair Cutting Rooms on the right, and the South Western Gas Board at the end of the street

The descent from Barkway, the second highest point in Hertfordshire, down to Royston, one of the lowest places in the county, was a nightmare for horse-drawn traffic and cyclists.

The occasional soldier can still be seen marching down the street.

This view is taken further down West Street, with the churchyard on the left and the boundary walls of the Victorian Baptist Church on the right.

Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.

Mappin and Webb's corner premises, together with the section of Queen Victoria Street down to Cannon Street, were completed in 1869.

The terrace of shops stepping down the High Street, beyond the busy junction with Carshalton Road and William Pile Ltd (the stuccoed corner building), was erected in 1880.

The town originally grew up around the burial place of the Celtic Saint Tydfil.

There were ten locks at the end of the Bridgewater Canal linking it with the docks below; figures for 1883 show that in that year alone 60,300 craft passed up and down.

Unfortunately, the Beacon fell down during as storm in the 1930s, and was replaced by a simple memorial plaque.

This 29-arch viaduct carries the Sheffield to Huddersfield railway over the River Don. It was built in 1849 a short distance from Penistone station.

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

These were the days when blazers and boaters were de rigeur for a trip down the river to Eccleston.

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.

On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.

A favourite walk is down the valley between the rivers Calder and Ribble. The climb to the pass of Nick o' Pendle is another favourite.

The photograph shows an area to the south of the original village as it drops down towards Tally Ho Corner, but just a little to the north, among the modern shops, are 18th-century houses and a fine 16th-century

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

The Garden of Rest is on the left of this photograph, in which we can also see the colonnade which enabled visitors to shop under cover all down one side of the Pantiles.

This photograph gives us the opportunity to look down the street and into Hargreaves Street, where the GPO stands (54191, page 46).

Down below, on what was once marsh land, and an area known as Duke's Fields, is not only the Manchester Ship Canal but the Waver Navigation Canal and the Runcorn Docks.

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.