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To the west of the town centre, and parallel with Chase side, this picturesque street has to be seen by any visitor to Enfield.

A striking building in the High Street is The Queen's Head Pub, mainly of the 17th century, with its welcoming atmospheric bars.

After his trial for treason at Northampton in 1164, Thomas à Beckett escaped from St Andrew's Priory.

Studs on the road surface mark the only traffic crossing in Kettering at this date. On the right, Gordon Thoday, with branches throughout East Anglia, sold dress fabrics.

He at once embarked on a programme of rebuilding and extension, doubling the size of the house, and moved the entire village of More Crichel except for St Mary`s Church, a mile away to the south in

The 16th-century house on the left still has its original brackets supporting the exposed joists of the first floor.

The locks and docks at Eastham form the western end of the Manchester Ship Canal.

Centre left at No 33 is the Green Dragon, a cider house, which closed in the late 1960s.

Such was the scale of operations at Vauxhall Motors that the maintenance and building contractors had their own site (foreground) complete with semi-permanent buildings, security and a fully operational

By 1965 the car was increasingly making its impact on Uttoxeter, as we can see from the number of parked cars.

Only one of the boys is wearing shorts; the other three are in jeans, which were becoming readily available at around 7s 6d a pair.

Harrow Park winds away to the east of the High Street, past one or two rather grand houses, to arrive at Deynecourt at the foot of the hill.

The intending attackers spent much of the day in the Duke of York on Nottingham Road, drinking and singing revolutionary songs. Unsurprisingly, they attracted a certain amount of attention.

Not visible in this photograph, but well worth walking to see at the west end of the street, is St Stephen's church, a large and handsome building which was founded before the Norman Conquest.

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

Some of these features were already in place at the turn of the century and a number of other prestigious regeneration schemes are at an advanced stage in their development while others are on

The Town Hall and the Market Hall stand out at the centre; the large building to the right of the Market Hall is Samuel H Facey & Son's brewery, which opened in 1862.

The White Horse Hotel, right foreground, advertises its select bowling saloon. The horse of the sign seems to be emerging from White Horse Lane just beyond the hotel.

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing on

This private estate was developed in 1833 by the Wakefield solicitor and Clerk of Barnsley Canal Company Thomas Foljambe (1775-1851), part of a larger scheme to build a number of grand

The White Horse Hotel, right foreground, advertises its select bowling saloon. The horse of the sign seems to be emerging from White Horse Lane just beyond the hotel.

Cheesden Brook passes under Ashworth Road, flowing to the right to join Naden Brook as it leaves Carr, Gelder and Bamford Woods.

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

Blundellsands beach forms part of the sixteen miles of sand stretching from Waterloo to Southport.