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This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Looking towards the junction with Lynchford Road, a rather downmarket- looking Fine Fare supermarket with what appears to be a corrugated iron roof has managed to gain a toe-hold, next to

During that time more than 70,000 boys aged between 14 and 17 were trained on her prior to entering the Merchant Navy. Note the size of the twin anchors hanging from the bow.

Clovelly hangs on the side of the hill, fringed by luxuriant woodland. Donkeys ply up and down the steep-stepped street, carrying goods on panniers.

The pulpit incorporates some 14th-century panels, and now stands on a modern wooden base. Pevsner rather sadly describes the nave arcades as 'disappointingly scraped'.

The original inn that stood on this site dated from the 16th century, but it was dismantled in 1910 and the present inn built.

The clock on the right hangs outside Lakeland Laundries, a chain once present all around the district. Stead & Simpson is no longer on the left, but at the top of the street on the right.

The Hatfield Hotel (centre right) looks very modern for 1950, and contrasts with the Victorian buildings on Parade Road South. In the foreground is a Victorian sprung cart in the shape of a lifeboat.

Here the photographer looks north along the High Street, towards its junction with Bridge Street to the right, and Desborough Road curving left.

Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

Church Street leads from the Market Square down to the Lancaster Canal, where a basin facilitated the handling of cargo on and off the barges.

An elegant lamp standard adorns the zebra crossing in front of the Town Hall, and hanging baskets brighten the stonework.

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

The Rows continue around the corner and into Watergate Street. Here, just behind the horse, it is possible to see one of the many staircases that give access to the upper floor.

On the right is Sando's multi-paned frontage and, on the left, a sizeable shop for ladies, advertising its clearance sale of blouses, which is in full swing.

That finished when the farm closed, but the Darbys are still around - Graham Darby is currently licensee of The Gate Hangs Well on High Park Avenue.

Ugly new street furniture in the form of electric street lamps begin to make an appearance.

This scene has changed little in the past 50 years, apart from the Royal Oak (left) losing its hanging sign and side entrance in the 1980s after a couple of lorries demolished the porch!

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

The building on the right with a hanging sign was the Bell Alehouse.

The thatched house (now demolished) is The Glen, the scene in 1884 of the murder of Emma Keyse by her handyman John Lee.

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

This portrait, painted by Anna Zinkeisen in the 1950s, was commissioned by the Royal Photographic Society, but then given to the family. It now hangs in the Fox Talbot Museum.