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The quiet street scene gives no hint of an industrial past. All we can see in this photograph are cottages and the village shop. It had a weekly market from 1253 until it was closed in 1982.

Our photographer now proceeds east along the High Street, a relatively narrow street with a mix of 17th-century and later fronts, now pedestrianised.

The High Street was named in the 13th century, when buildings were recorded east of Beeding Bridge.

Across the street is the entrance to Mercery Lane, with the overhanging beams of a former pilgrims' inn, the Chequer of Hope, which once stretched back to the Buttermarket.

Continuing uphill past the end of The Paragon and at the junction with Guinea Lane, Roman Road heads for the junction with a steeply climbing Walcot Street and London Road.

For many years Grammar School pupils used North Street to reach their sports ground at the bottom of the hill. We now return up the hill to High Street.

Sharing its name with the river in whose valley it lies, Darwen grew rapidly as a result of industrialisation in the early 19th century, and many of the buildings along Market Street were

To the left of the street is a gate, erected in 1766, which leads to Holy Trinity Church.

In the 1850s, Cheapside was one of the most fashionable shopping streets in London, with a 'mighty stream of traffic' flowing through from Oxford Street to Leadenhall and the City.

The houses in South Street become smaller in scale than in the other three streets meeting at the central Market Cross.

Here we see the junction of White Horse Street and Sun Street, leading to St Mary's Church with its 13th-century tower and prominent spike.

Mostyn Street is one of Llandudno's main shopping streets; we see it here pictured in bright sunlight.

Of Harborne's pubs, the Bell, Old Church Street has survived for three hundred years; its bar is in the passageway.The Junction, High Street has one very big room, an island bar, and some fixtures

A Roman settlement on Stane Street and the navigable River Arun.

This church in Kensington High Street was foundd in the 12th century by the Abbot of Abingdon. It was rebuilt by the Victorians between 1869 and 1872 to Sir George Gilbert Scott's lavish design.

This view looks towards the town from the junction of Anstey Road, Normandy Street and Paper Mill Lane.

The High Street, with many cars, and a tarmacadam road, is much changed from earlier pictures. Simonds Bank is now Barclays, and Armstrongs has become Eighteens.

This view looks north out of the Market Place, past the corner of St John Street, with the Old Vicarage on the right.

This view shows Victoria Street at the crossing with Ann Street, heading for Queen's Bridge. The telephone wires must also have been going over the river.

Looking back up North Street towards the Parade and Market House, with the Post Office on the left, as it still is today.

Much has changed here: the trams have long gone, the Celtic cross memorial to the Somerset Light Infantry's Burma Campaign in the 1880s is now a traffic island further up in North Street, while the open

Here, East Street heads towards Fore Street past 1830s stucco terraces. The Claridges London Hotel is now occupied by Waterstones bookshop and Marks and Spencers.

There was a castle here, which was besieged by King Stephen in 1138, but its keep has long gone; only its outline is marked on the grass of its hill at the end of Bailey Street.

Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street to the western scarp of the limestone ridge.