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Cars are parked by the town hall; it was home to the Galaxy Club from 1964 to 1966, and Screaming Lord Sutch and his Raving Savages, Lulu, and John Mayall's Blues Breakers featuring Eric Clapton, Mick

The south bank was a popular location for hiring rowing boats, and the Bedford Rowing Club, founded in 1886, have their boat and club house to the left of the photographer.

This view looks south down Dunstable Street from Market Place; the Moot Hall is on the right with its slender iron-glazed casements.

The complex was built on a site previously occupied by a row of cottages adjacent to Cambridge Hall, and opened in 1878 having cost around £14,000.

In the distance, on the left of the picture, can just be seen Greta Hall, former home of the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.

Here we have a clearer view of the tall Town Hall building to the right, and beyond it lies the premises of the National Provincial Bank.

The Trustee Savings Bank building, on the right, was formerly the office of Stroud's Conservative newspaper, the Stroud News.

High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten.

This part of the street was going to be called St James's Square, a challenge by the Roman Catholic, originally Stuart-supporting element, to St Anne's Square, which was named for a Church of England Queen

The complex was built on a site previously occupied by a row of cottages adjacent to Cambridge Hall, and opened in 1878 having cost around £14,000.

Lloyds Bank used to operate from the house on the extreme right.

On the left of the Town Hall is J Whiting, and to the right is H G Startup, gentlemen's hairdressers.

This view is from the footway outside Lloyds Bank.

The rotunda (now occupied by a bank) can be seen on the left.

The village of West Retford, with its own medieval parish church, St Michael's, lies on the west bank of the River Idle, and has long been absorbed into the town.

The tower contains a bell cast in the local bell foundries in 1665; the location of these foundries is commemorated in the name Bell Banks Road, a road to the south that runs from Market Street to

In the distance, on the left of the photograph, can be seen part of Greta Hall, the former home of the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.

The rotunda (now occupied by a bank) can be seen on the left.

On the north side of the High Street, behind the Mini Traveller stands the Westminster Bank, previously Ellwoods; next door is R & O Hall, newsagents, who later became Buxton`s paper shop and is now

The drinking fountain with its cherub ornament was erected in 1884; Barclay's Bank on the right was designed by Gilbert Scott, and dates from 1897.

Remarkably, little has changed in this view, although the Midland Bank on the right is now a pub, and the Station Hotel on the left (beyond Hall and Co, coal and coke merchants) is now part

Attempts to make amends include pedestrianising the High Street, but many of the buildings seen in this view, particularly on the left- hand side, have gone, including the 1880s Barclays Bank

This view looks east from the upper windows of the old Town Hall along Church Street.

Beyond the contemporary Warlingham Church Hall are 1920s shops and a bank, which is dated 1927.