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By the end of the 19th century, New Street was both the principal business street in the town and the best for shopping and entertainment.This view is from Paradise Street.

However, that King Charles House is round the corner on New Street. But it does bear the same date - 1577 - so perhaps both were part of the same building.

The pace of change accelerated as the 20th century approached, and after its formation in 1895 the new Urban District Council embarked on a programme of renovation.

This view looks west along the main thoroughfare of the New Town, with Prince's Street Gardens on the left.

Regency society eventually found lodgings in the High Street to be too modest for their social requirements.

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

School - was built by public subscription on Derby Street. That building, now Stokers' furniture store, was originally only one storey; in 1853 an upper floor was added at the cost of £1,007.

The new church, St Peter's, seems to have been deliberately placed in a prominent position close to the market place and the approach to the castle.

The far, tall building marks Bridge Street, the spot where the first bridge upstream was located.

Also lost during the town centre development was the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which had stood on the corner of the Parade and Newhall Street.

As the town began to recover from the effects of the war, the Urban District Council turned its attention to providing the new housing that the town needed.