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The 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

Church Cottages, or Hyde Park Corner Cottages, are five almshouses run by the George Savage Trust. In 1971 they were severely damaged by fire, and were rebuilt and reopened in 1972.

Wilkins's garage closed c1985; next door was Bruce's, watchmaker, with the butchers on the corner. On the right is the Town Hall of 1912-13.

The figure seated on the corner of Market Street is probably Charlie Lee, a well-known stallholder at the fish market opposite. Perhaps he is composing his latest daily poem wto amuse his customers.

It grew both in physical size - occupying a rabbit warren of connected shops on the corner of Cattle Market and Market Street - and in its range of goods.

The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view. The venerable Austin Seven must be about twenty years old at the time of this photograph.

The Half Way House Hotel is on the corner of Storeton Road and Woodchurch Road out towards Prenton.

Each of the four square corner towers is topped off with octagonal machicolated turrets, from which unpleasant things could be dropped upon the heads of unwelcome visitors.

This view is taken from the west, near the north-east corner of the Green, at the foot of Angel Hill. The fine west tower of All Saints dominates the scene.

On the right, the house dated 1882 still stands at the corner of East Road, part of the High Town developments of the 1870s onwards.

Of the shops visible here, none is still in retail use except what was Walton's pork butcher's on the Market Place corner (right). Centre left is Castle Walk.

On the opposite corner of Monk Street the agricultural merchants has gone, to be replaced by the new South Wales Electricity Board building.

The shops between Pottle's and Poole Corner were demolished to make way for the old post office and an ironmonger's.

The popular General Stores stands on the corner with the District Bank opposite.

The gardens behind Bank House, situated in the lower High Street, were given to the town of Stroud in 1930 by Mr Ernest Winterbotham, and were intended as a quiet corner where shop workers could enjoy

We are looking along Grange Road from the corner of Oxton Road.

Although there is no evidence of habitation here before the 17th century, this windswept north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey has since enjoyed a measure of success as a seaside resort as a result

This quiet corner of Bramley includes a picturesque cottage with several cartwheels in the garden.

Boots and International Stores had both been long-term tenants of this corner, but in 1976 Boots moved away, and the Leeds Permanent Building Society, followed by the Halifax, moved in.

Some of the local shops look out onto the large pond at the top end of Norton High Street, with the Unicorn public house on the corner just to the right of centre.

Burton's the tailors displays its fine facade with Portland stone columns, which was created by rebuilding the corner of Horsemarket Street and Buttermarket Street in 1937.

Stobart the tailors, on the right with the display of hats and caps, has now lost the corner of its ground floor.

The Flower House on the corner became a bank in more recent years, while Wheelers car showroom on the right was demolished in the early 1970s and replaced by offices.

Here we see the great castle-like north- east corner tower and, to the right, the Great Hall’s oriel bay window and the (now glazed) cupola to vent the hall’s former open fire.