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At the junction with Paternoster Row, Cheapside swings from the north in an arc and heads east towards the Bank.

The fisher women of Newlyn clustered at the fish-stalls with their 'cowels', baskets carried on their backs, which were supported by a band passed round their foreheads.

These thatched granite cottages have turned their backs to the weather and the comfortless winds off the open seas.

Further north-west the photographer looks back towards the town centre past the Moat Road junction to Moat Church, the Congregational Church opened in 1870, now the United Reformed Church and its unusual

Small inshore fishing boats are drawn up at the back of the harbour, where two jetties were built in the 1890s to provide shelter and encourage this local industry.

The origins of Punch and Judy are in fact Italian, dating back to the Pulcinella of the commedia dell'arte, and first appeared in London in a marionette show around 1666.

On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs. Reed beds can be clearly seen at the far edge of the broad, with trees on land behind.

On the extreme right, partly visible, is the entrance to the local Conservative club, and on the left is the facade of the National Provincial Bank, now Nat West.

As the town's popularity as a holiday resort grew, Victorian streets and shops spread back from the sea. Here were grocers, outfitters, tobacconists and souvenir and fancy goods shops.

Lytham's premier hotel has a history dating back over 300 years.

In those days this was frontier country, for though William the Conqueror had won at Hastings, anti-Norman feelings in the North were high and the possibility of a Danish-backed rebellion was never far

In this photograph we look west from the tip of Mill Meadow Island towards the Embankment and the north bank of the river.

Despite its moderately tumble-down appearance, The Porch is now a bank.

Although the scene is basically little changed, apart from the loss of the National Provincial Bank on the right (it was replaced by an archetypal building of the 1960s or early 1970s, larger but of

Looking east, the steep bank has a low covering of bushes which obscure the views if allowed to grow up, and in 2004 a lot of clearing work was done.

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

Very much a village pub, the Swan has a beer garden at the back to cater for the local populace, who number around 500, and visitors who come this way to walk round this quiet spot.

Standing in the centre of the town at the junction of roads to Yorkshire and the north is the extravagantly ornate Union Bank Building, occupied by Barclays in the 1950s and now by the

This view is looking back towards the High Street.The Southern Daily Echo (now the Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.The famous clock above Electric House is still there.The

The two buildings to the left are banks, with the modern Whitehall Theatre between the two.

The architect was Sir Edwin Cooper, who looked back to the pre-Great War Edwardian era.

On the opposite corner from the Yorkshire Bank was Redman's the grocer's (centre right), beloved by local housewives for their selection and good value.

It is still possible to walk along the banks of the local waterways, just as these Edwardian children did nearly a century ago. A canal to Tiverton once started from near French Weir.