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This photograph appears to show a quiet village where nothing much happens apart from an amble down to the post office to buy a few stamps.

The High Street becomes Fore Street as it heads down towards the river Exe. The street today is a mass of shops and attractive buildings, none more so than Tuckers Hall.

Later, they fell victim both to progress and anti-pollution legislation, and were replaced by gas-fired and electric kilns.The last of the bottle kilns to be used commercially closed down in 1967

The summit at 1083 feet is at the head of West Down at the southern point of Cleeve Common.

This solidly-built Edwardian shop is still trading as the Post Office, despite some alteration; it stands on the way down to the former station site.

To the right, there is still a fish and chip shop by West Street, which runs down to the Minster.

The large, stone building down Quietways, on the right, was the vicarage.

The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles.

The Belfast and County Down Railway used their Slieve Bearnagh trips to Portrush or Portaferry with cruises up Strangford Lough.

Further down on the right was the Phoenix, the scene of Hardy's poem 'The Dance at the Phoenix'.

Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.

Stickle Ghyll, which flows down from Stickle Tarn, passes under the bridge in this photograph, which was taken looking towards the 2,403ft summit of Harrison Stickle, the highest of the pikes.

It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.

A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

Now all of that has changed, and so has Bridge Street, for it has virtually all been knocked down for redevelopment. On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider.

For centuries, lines of horses would lumber over this bridge weighed down with freight. Often, lead would be the main load.

The church of St Mary was burnt down in 1914 and rebuilt by W Fellowes Prynne. What remained of the old building was the brick west tower dating back to around 1635.

During the Protectorate in the 17th century, the cathedral was in danger of being pulled down.

This photograph, probably taken from the top of St Mary Woolnoth Church, shows the view west down Poultry which leads directly into Cheapside.

In 1796 the old tower was pulled down and a new one built, and in 1808 the main body of the church was demolished and rebuilt at a cost of £842.

As we look at this mundane street as it drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning

The shop in the right foreground is now Mark Doel's butcher's shop; the modern library is a few doors further down towards the Angel, whose sign can be seen in the distance.

On the right is a tent and small wind shelters, while further along is a solitary bathing machine, which appears never to have been moved down to the sea.

Further down, on the pavement, is the town`s pump.