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The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

Murkett Brothers car showrooms on the opposite bank in the 1955 picture indicate an unlikely egalitarianism in the juxtaposition of window signs for both Rolls Royce and a caravan agency.

The TV series All Creatures Great and Small was filmed here, which put the village back on the tourist trail in the 1970s.

In nearby Newburgh Priory possibly lie the headless remains of Oliver Cromwell - his daughter is reputed to have brought the body back from Tyburn after the hanging of his corpse in 1660, following the

Jane Austen writes in 'Persuasion': 'Charmouth with its high ground and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet retired bay, backed by dark cliffs where fragments of low rock

Sited on the Haywards Road junction, the white building on the extreme right is Lloyds Bank; this building was later demolished, but Lloyds are still on the same site.

When they failed to produce these, the ten men stormed back to camp, helping themselves to rifles.

The three-storey Masons' Arms (left), where the landlord was George Hodder, has been replaced by a modern library set back from the road.

Here we have another view of the village, with its cottages and barns built in its local sandstone.

For a while, the mansio and its attendant shops were surrounded by a series of banks and ditches.

The business goes back to the 17th century, and was started by the landlord of the Bell, who was also a blacksmith.

This is a wonderfully patriotic photograph of the monument to Lancashire lad Sir Robert Peel, standing in the park named after him.

Although our picture is remarkably free of traffic, during holiday times cars, buses and lorries backed up for two or three miles in each direction, and the congestion was only relieved by the construction

This view looks back towards the town centre. These Georgian buildings with their refined sash windows have gone.

We now turn left from the High Street into Sheaf Street and look back down the hill to Brook Street. The scene appears very quiet, with only one car and a cyclist to be seen.

On the right is the old Belle Vue Tavern dating back to the 1760s, which was an earlier haunt for smugglers.

Probably dating back to a chapel-of-ease on the site in the 14th century, St Michael and All Angels is a striking landmark visible from most of the town.

Further along The Broadway, and set back, is a row of shops which in fact incorporate a fragment of The Red House. This row was demolished in the 1980s to make space for a large office block.

The photograph shows Bell Street as a quiet back street in a small market town with only one car and a solitary cyclist - a far cry from the busy shopping centre of today.

This approach to the city is picturesque, with the canal winding its way through the meadows between reed-fringed banks.

Henry's wishes were to count for little, as de Clare - with the backing of the barons - retook it by force.

This was produced from willow and alder, which was readily available from the river banks. The river also provided water-power for the mills and transport for barges.

linked the north end of the bridge to the Saltmarket (originally called the Waulcergait (street of the wool- scourers), while the Drygate ran east from the cathedral and terminated on the west bank

The rebuilding took nearly twenty years, and the craftsmen tried to put only the best and finest materials back into Manchester's chief house of God. 192 new traceried panels were fitted to the ancient