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Regent Street, in this picture, reflects the commercial activity. The post box on the right is the same style as is used today.

It is odd that the street lighting is only on the left side of the road, supported by the telephone poles.

William Seward, a major businessman in the town during the early years of the century, built a new boot and shoe shop in the High Street in 1901 and followed this up with other new premises in

Wimborne Street c1955 Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’, where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious ‘Flower-de-Luce

We are looking down the street in the opposite direction to photograph B672001, with the Forge Hammer now on the right.

Serious building work is in progress in this normally sedate street. On the extreme right an area has been cordoned off with barriers, and beyond are the towers of hoists and cranes.

On the left is the gable end of Hildreds Hotel - demolished in 1987 - and at the centre are what were then the newly-built underground lavatories with a domed ventilator surmounted by a street lamp.

The steep little street next to Jesse S Raddall (now a bistro called Three Steps to Heaven) is Angel Hill.

Like many premises in town, the frontage has changed at street level, but above the slates remain as they always did.

The steep little street next to Jesse S Raddall (now a bistro called Three Steps to Heaven) is Angel Hill.

The domed building, the Old White Horse and the overhead street lighting have also disappeared.

Here we can see the war memorial at the junction of High Street, Wollaston Road and Farndish Road, with steps leading up to the tall monument surmounted by a cross.

Now within the village, Frith's photographer looks down one of the estate roads, with their undistinguished 'Anywheresville' modern houses, towards the High Street.

Gothic-style drinking fountain of 1860 has been relocated to the cemetery in South Road, presumably to save it from the traffic, while the good stone-tile-roofed building beyond on the corner of South Street is

Here, a few street vendors have set out their stalls.

Note the complexity of building styles along the street line – the Victorians had no concern for harmony or for what was appropriate.

There is no such thing as an ordinary street in this town. True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares.

The elongated Venetian window added a continental look to the street. The building is now demolished.

During the Edwardian era, Coney Street was the place for fashionable shopping.

The ivy-clad King's Head public house, on the right, is a popular local hostelry, although the gallows-type pub sign out in the street has long gone.

The clock tower dominates the main street of this West Cumberland town.

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

A guidebook in 1795 described Weobley as having 'a few small streets meanly constructed, without either market or traffic'.

The road is widening as we look back towards the High Street. Owen the pharmacist was at No 61 (right) until 1958, next door to the King David Inn, which was to close in 1973.