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Union Street is now pedestrianised; this view shows some of the modern shop fronts installed by 1955 which replaced the much better Victorian ones.

One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!

In the 1530s the old hospital of St Bartholomew had seen better days, and the decision was taken to convert it into a grammar school.

A Free Dispensary for the poor had been set up at the rear of the churchyard in 1818, but there was an increasing need for better facilities, and the Infirmary & Dispensary was built in New

The mock-Tudor style is often mocked, but anybody taking the Bristol Road through Northfield today (and possibly even in 1955) would struggle to find a better-looking building than this mock-Tudor pub

Little of the abbey church remains, but other buildings around the cloister are better preserved. This view shows the south transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right.

In 1888 these girls went on strike for better pay and conditions. Such a protect and threat to public order was rare amongst itinerant workers.

Where better to begin an exploration of Taunton town than in Fore Street, very much the centre of this ancient Borough.

Corporation Pier, seen here, is better known as the Ha'penny Pier, after its original toll charge. A small ferry goes from here to Felixstowe.

St Nicholas, of course, is usually better known these days as Santa Claus.

The stocks were usually positioned on a main thoroughfare, or better still in the market place; convicted wrongdoers were secured in them by either their legs or arms.

One hundred years earlier, the church was described as 'little better than a hovel, with a belfry like a pigeon-house', though its 12th-century bells were among the oldest in Hampshire.

His poem about the embittered fisherman Peter Grimes inspired an opera by a much later and better known resident, Benjamin Britten.

One hundred years earlier, the church was described as 'little better than a hovel, with a belfry like a pigeon-house', though its 12th-century bells were among the oldest in Hampshire.

This was the site of a Celtic monastery founded by St Dochdwy or Dochau, the name by which St Cyngar was better known.

The plaque that commemorates him states that 'it is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born', a sentiment of great meaning in a town that played such an important part in the Chartist movement

Jewson & Son the timber merchants - nowadays better known as 'The Jewson Lot' - started their business here in Earith in the 19th century, using the River Ouse to transport their timber.

In 1890, the town was the birthplace of Arthur Stanley Jefferson, better known as Stan Laurel, and a museum in Upper Brook Street, off to the right, celebrates his partnership with Oliver

The top storey has been rebuilt in simpler style, but it is still miles better than the dreary Broad Street Mall that swept away all the buildings on the left.

What a pity that F Sole went in for being a family butcher when the name would have better suited a fishmonger!

The demolition took place about five or six years ago, no one was quite sure when, but the one thing that was said positively was that the replacement is better!

They may have a few trees to look at, but as far as the amenities of their home are concerned, these elephants do not fare any better than the gorilla.

Initially, Knebworth had been suggested, but it was felt that railway provision was better at Stevenage.

The Cod & Lobster has been battered by the elements over the centuries. Three earlier inns have been destroyed, and this building was severely damaged in 1953.