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This street takes its name from the Guildhall of Our Lady, later called the Wool Hall, which now forms part of the Swan Hotel on the left.

This view looks north along the High Street past the now 'improved' junction with West Lane.

At the west end of the High Street, London Road curves away north-west downhill.

In the centre of the picture, in Water Street, is Priory Farm, which once belonged to Earls Colne Priory in Essex.

The town-village grew up where the Roman Stane Street crossed the River Arun.

Boots the chemist had built their original store on the corner opposite the Royal Hotel at the bottom of Market Street.

This view looks down the High Street towards the clock tower. This was built as a market hall and lock up, or temporary prison, in 1842, but in 1870 the clocktower, belfry and spire were added.

East Street used to lead from the Common Acre past a number of big houses. On the right, three dormers mark the roof of the Manse to the Congregational Church, built in 1780.

The south-west side of Ware High Street changed drastically when it was decided to build a new Tesco Store in 1960.

Bridge House, the Post Office Stores and the adjoining houses (centre bottom) follow the curve of the street, named after The Swan Inn.

The White Swan beyond is still there, and next is another shoe shop, E C Hall. A young lady is in charge. Wold Antiques is next, and then comes a building that is looking sad and forlorn.

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

The White Swan beyond is still there, and next is another shoe shop, E C Hall. A young lady is in charge. Wold Antiques is next, and then comes a building that is looking sad and forlorn.

Boots the chemist had built their original store on the corner opposite the Royal Hotel at the bottom of Market Street.

The High Street still has shops, banks and pubs. Petty Sessions were held in the Swan Hotel, and the public house on the right has been a popular watering-hole since the early 1800s.

East of the church and the Moot Hall, a jettied timber-framed building of about 1500, standing in its green, is the main north-south village road, the High Street.

The parish church of St Peter, with its solid flintstone tower dominating the high street shops and mid-morning traffic in this picture, was originally built by the Normans alongside the spacious

On the left, along West Street, stood the Crown and Anchor public house next door to the shop selling 'home-made pork pies and sandwiches'.

The Coln runs alongside the village street, where ducks waddle along the tops of low stone walls and spotted trout nose their way through the waving waterweeds.

The cenotaph in the High Street commemorates those who died in battle but whose remains lie elsewhere.

The staircase from Houghton House, carrying the date of 1688, is in the Swan Hotel at Bedford.

Those still trading are the Surrey Yeoman (see 46016 overleaf), the Bull's Head (Rose Hill, which we can see in 54666, right, with its entrance on the corner of the High Street and just behind the

Swain Street runs south from the harbour; it is narrow and mixed architecturally, as can be seen in this Edwardian view.

This view, from the east side of the harbour, looks across the Esplanade to the slipway at the junction of Market Street and Swain Street, the old core of the town.