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On the right is the new police station, with the Petty Sessions Division and Magistrates' Court (later demolished). Further down is the Post Office, erected in 1889.

Within two miles of the Clock Tower, local cinemas abounded, only to be swept away in the 1960s purge, including the rather magnificent Trocadero at Humberstone, replaced by a petrol station.

It provided half the city's supply until Worcester Power Station became operational in the early 20th century. Powick Mills continued to supply power until the 1950s.

At the beginning of the 20th century there were plenty of shops along Compstall Road, and it was also where Joseph Bullock had his saddlery business; the local police station had Harry Wibberley as constable

The castle was built from 1071 by Alan the Red as a defence station at the gateway to Swaledale.

This view shows the boat station by the 1936 hump-backed bridge. Nowadays there is also an elevated monorail. All the buildings, including the distant flat-roofed chalets, survive today.

The photograph looks south-east along the culverted stream bordering Station Road, with housing of the 1920s and 30s on the extreme right.

To the left, the bell turret belongs to the Old Court House and former police station, built a little earlier in 1861.

It opened in 1936, and was very popular; it was also easy to get to, being a mere quickstep away from the railway station (off to the right of this view).

In the distance are the chimneys of Greenwich Power Station of 1902-10.

On the opposite side of the street a man carrying a suitcase passes in front of the doors of the fire station, next to the tiled butcher and fishmonger's shop run by Mr F Savage.

At the foot of the hill is the brick and concrete underground station of 1939, designed by Charles Holden and L H Bucknell.

Thus, close to Oakwood Station this parade of typical 1930s small shops was built.

The eastern end of Bell Street is crossed by Knight Street, a wide road leading from Station Road to Fair Green where a market and fair have been held since the charter was granted in 1306.

The shop beside TK 813 is W Frost (right), stationer, bookseller and printer who still ran a circulating library.

We are looking north on the approach from High Barnet Underground Station. The church of St John the Baptist dominates this readily-recognisable street scene on the crown of the hill.

This last can be seen seventy years later in the picture of the railway station (W81011).

The Town - baxtergate, skinner street, east crescent, the station, strenshalh, st ann's again

During the Second World War she kept open house for the RAF officers stationed at the nearby airfield at Wyton, and arranged musical and literary evenings.

New housing and shopping facilities near the station were soon erected.

After its closure in the 1950s, the buildings were taken down and it became the site of a petrol station and tyre-fitting business; but in the late 1990s, this in turn was demolished.

The left-hand side of the High Street, however, is virtually the same as it is here, with the George Hotel on the corner of Station Road.

Further north, at the A245 Parvis Road junction, the photographer looks back down High Road with Lloyds TSB on the left and the Dutch-gabled fire station of 1885 on the right, complete with its siren

Shingle was still being removed from the wide shingle beach (bottom left), and the branch line had been extended to the seaside at West Bay Station (centre right).