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A hundred years ago, Huddersfield was a collection of villages - now Milnsbridge has been almost absorbed, and is on the outskirts. The town is packed with mills and machinery works.

This house stands on the corner of Coney Street and New Street. The lower part of the house is now a shop that sells mobile telephones, but the upper storey remains virtually unchanged.

Hesba Stretton is a little-known writer who was born in New Street, to the left of the timber framed building at the far end of the square.

Wrexham 'comprises several spacious, well-paved streets', says a contemporary gazetteer, 'and has undergone great improvement by reconstruction of buildings and the construction of new streets'.

This building, the School Science Block, however, is on the Glapthorn Road beyond New Street and dates from 1914. It is a distinguished Jacobean styled structure complete with an onion domed cupola.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

This quaint scene beside the aviary yielded to a new roundabout where Eastern Avenue/Newbury Road crosses the old coach road to London, New Street/Vigo Road.

Note that Smith Bradbeers has moved to this corner, from Market Street (see page 25). Note also the roofline, with chimneys and upper rooms above the shops in the centre.

Previously called South Street, this was redeveloped in the late 18th century. The 'Brick' building sited opposite the Boot and Shoe was erected in 1770 out of bricks not needed for the Cloth Hall.

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

New street lighting has been installed, and although Caffyns are still here, there is a new Seeboard (electricity) showroom next door. Both businesses have now moved.

A Dimond had already traded on the High Street for some 80 years when this photograph was taken, and Dimond's (left) are happily still in business, though the shop front has changed slightly

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

By this time New Street had been diverted behind the building and Church Close created.

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.

North Street joins High Street by Lloyds Bank, and it is down here on the left that we find the last Daventry Grammar School building.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a number of new streets were built following the grid pattern of the mediaeval town.

Within a few decades, the face of Cleckheaton had changed beyond recognition with the establishment of machine manufacturing.

Situated among the somewhat reduced remnants of Georgian Leicester, now tightly grouped in New Street, Peacock Lane and Friar Lane, the building is overshadowed by St Martin's Cathedral (upgraded

It was in a house in Ferrers Avenue, as the new Eynesbury estate had been called, that quads were born to Walter and Doris Miles on 28 November 1935.

These are now the Century and Wyfold Galleries, but for years they were the premises of Shepherd and Dee, boat builders.

The view is from the end of the Market Place, with New Street to the left and Fisher Street to the right.

Situated among the somewhat reduced remains of the buildings of Georgian Leicester, now tightly grouped in New Street, Peacock Lane and Friar Lane, the Guildhall is overshadowed by St Martins Cathedral

In 1907 the Corporation cut a new thoroughfare across Newgate, demolishing the Circus and the old Hippodrome and linking Blackwater Street with the Esplanade.