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Several houses in Silver Street date back to Elizabethan times.

Several houses in Silver Street date back to Elizabethan times.

New housing has been built in the village, but this part, South End Cottages on Back Street, is just as it was in 1955.

It was here that Jerome K Jerome, two friends and his shamed-looking dog took a train back to London, having abandoned their journey which was written up as 'Three Men in a Boat'.

Also known as St Sampson's, Golant on the west bank of the Fowey was cut off from the main estuary, save for a bridge, by the embankment of the Lostwithiel to Fowey railway in 1869.

Frogmore Street begins near the bank on the right, site of the medieval north gate.

On the left is A J White, watch and clockmaker (the other half of the building was Barclays Bank, open on Wednesdays), George Howe, draper and grocer, Adam's, baker and confectioner, and the Crown.

In the 1920s, the owner of a chain of grocery stores had two carved cats placed on the upper front of his shop - they were supposed to frighten the rats away from the river bank.

By the time of this photograph, the river was being used more and more for pleasure: streamlined boats are moored by the bank, and a canoe with its lone occupant is heading towards Lendal Bridge.

Alighting at the railway station, it was now possible to travel comfortably by carriage down Beach Road, admire the Esplanade, and return up Cliff Hill back to your train via Marine Parade and Plymouth

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.

The three- storey building with painted architraved frames to the rows of sash windows is the early 18th-century White Hart, and beyond is a pedimented neo-Georgian 1930s Barclays Bank.

Instead, it has thirteen separate towers, linked by a curtain wall, a Saracen idea brought back by returning Crusaders.

Our photographer has his back to the ABC Carlton Cinema, which stood at this junction.

This view from Skerton Bridge looks back down the River Lune to Lancaster.

On the left we can see the long, steeply pitched roof of the Methodist church on Kents Bank Road.

Standing above the east bank of the river Stour, Wye was a royal manor before the Norman Conquest, and was given by William I to Battle Abbey in Susses.

This narrow lane shows exactly how the back streets of the old town would have looked 200 years ago.

The parish church of St James stands inside a banked enclosure that was once the Bishop of Lincoln's manor.

The lorry and tractor are parked casually - perhaps the owners are drinking at the Chequers, or visiting Lloyds Bank (left); a postman is delivering letters (right).

Notice also the stonework at the back of the Town Hall in front of the mill so that a future extension could be keyed in.

The vegetation on the far bank has now grown to fill the open spaces shown here, giving the whole site an impression of being far removed from the centre of a busy and thriving town.

More recently it was a retirement home for servants of the Bankes family, owners of the Kingston Lacy Estate until 1981.

This view of Welton, looking back up the main street, has changed dramatically in recent years.