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Mr Chapple opened his garage further down the street in 1914 – note the petrol pumps on the pavement – and on either side are a barber's shop and a café advertising teas.

Beyond the Esso petrol logo of Stevenson`s Garage are road signs, pointing into Barrack Street, for Beaminster and Crewkerne.

Another great Nonconformist preacher dominates the Square at the opposite end of the High Street to John Bunyan.

The Square and Cobb Gate at the seaward end of Broad Street, eastwards from Bell Cliff, with the line-up of parked cars including Rileys, a Hornet soft-top, Jowett, Standard and Austins.

Edward Wright, the village baker, gave his name to this row of cottages in the High Street. His house and the bakery, second from left, are thought to be more than 300 years old.

We are looking in the opposite direction to S51047 towards Albion Terrace, with the Queen Hotel and the Primitive Methodist church just visible on the left-hand side of the street.

On both sides of the main street are dwellings of all shapes, sizes and ages, including a fine mock-Tudor gabled residence in the near left.

This view shows Brook Street with its cantilever railway bridge, removed after the line closed between Ilkley and Morecambe.

The photograph was taken shortly after the High Street was closed to through traffic; the untidy houses on the left will soon become desirable town residences and shops.

Now pedestrianised, this is the main shopping street of Stamford. Woolworth's have expanded to take over the Pine Apple Pub (right), a most unusual name for a pub.

In Bala's spacious tree-lined High Street we can see the White Lion (centre right) and a pleasing mixture of building styles.

Here the street is seemingly deserted in the sunlight, save for a few parked cars; one is waiting outside the Plas Coch Hotel.

The main street, Watchhouse Road, may have taken its name from a lookout camp here at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

Near to this point was the former Guild Hall, or 'gildhus' and there are also many references to the market activities in this area until 1827 when the new building was constructed in Market Street

The members of the Board took steps to get the entire town properly drained, and to restrict animals wandering the High Street too freely on market-day.

The church of St John the Baptist dominates this readily-recognisable street scene on the crown of the hill.

Looking southwards through the desirable heart of the town`s northern suburb, we can see No 50 further down the street (left of centre) and Nos 53 to 59 (far right) on the other side.

This picture looks westwards down the north side of West Street, with its lollipop limes, from the Post Office to Victoria Grove (right of centre).

Now at ground level, Frith's 1950's photographer looks along the Market Place past the left turn into Whielden Street towards the Market Hall, with the Crown Hotel on the left with its deep porch, now

Here the road turns right into Church Street with The Nunnery, a fine 14th-century three-storey town house with slate-hung jettied upper storeys.

We look eastwards down Church Street from the Main Road on the south side of the Talbot Arms and Doon Beg (far left).

Here looking down the High Street we see splendid views of Upper Nidderdale.

Here Frith's photographer looks east along Thames Street in Lower Sunbury.

The cottages on the left have lost their gardens to road widening, but otherwise the street is very much recognisable today.