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Oakham Lane is one of the streets leading from the village green. The building with the white window partially obscured behind the tree was the village school.

The bypass on the south side of town was opened in 1926; it was much needed to relieve the narrow streets of both local china clay and through traffic.

The entrance to Barclays Bank is seen to the right of the picture.The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral.

Described in 1890 as a 'handsome modern thoroughfare', Corporation Street was the result of a massive redevelopment of 93 acres of slums.

Once this was the part of the street with clothing shops; it is now the part of town with the banks, building societies and estate agents.

This photograph is taken further down Market Street.

Hitchin Street formed part of the complex of parallel trackways which made up the Icknield Way.

This gateway entrance to the City at the west end of Fleet Street was designed by Christopher Wren. The figures in the niches are James I and Charles I.

Today Winchester Street is pedestrianised.

This street is so called because the Market Place, Frenchgate and Ryder's Wynd all drained into it.

There was a church built of stone on the site as early as 1056; before that, Saxon bishops ruled County Durham from Chester-le-Street's timber-built monastic cathedral, where the bones of St Cuthbert himself

The sails of the Union Windmill peep over the roofs of the half-timbered cottages lining the street.

This photograph shows the centre of the busy High Street, with the road to Bexley and London ahead and the turning to Crayford visible on the right.

Both the Crown and the George & Dragon public houses (on the right-hand side of the street) have ceased trading, and are now private dwellings.

He demolished the old village and constructed a grand castle, rehousing the local people in well-designed Georgian dwellings along the new Main Street.

The 130ft-high neo-Gothic Wallace Tower, in the High Street, was completed in 1832. It replaced an earlier structure in which Sir William Wallace was alleged to have been imprisoned.

He agreed to reduce the burden if she would ride naked through the streets. This she did, with her long hair strategically placed, and Leofric honoured his promise.

Here we see the Victoria Hotel in Nevill Street.

We have reached the era of fish and chips, wrapped in newspaper and eaten possibly in the street or in Smart's Fried Fish Saloon (right).

The jumble of gables and chimneys on the right of the street represents a 17th-century house; opposite it is the entrance to Chichele College, founded by Archbishop Chichele in 1422.

East of photograph N251008, Frith's photographer looks along Church Street with the 15th-century tower of St Michael's church on the right. Unusually, its lower stage is open and serves as a porch.

The best of the old village is around the parish church, particularly in the quaintly named street, Hickmire.

Hope Cottage near the church is dated 1888, and at No 16 Church Street a tall tree has replaced what looks like a broken-off post (right).

The tiny houses further along the street have been rebuilt into one house with two dormer windows in the roof.