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Old rough-stone cottages line the street which leads up to the market place. Just visible is Garstang's market cross, a Tuscan column topped by a stone orb that was erected in 1754.

Spacious period houses line its streets and lanes, built by the affluent who came then, as now, to retire here.

Like so many other north-east Derbyshire communities, Langwith depended on coal for its livelihood, as we can see from the huge coal tip, now gone, visible in this view of the High Street.

The River Meon rises only a mile to the south of this village and flows prettily through the High Street.

This view looks from Coppice Hill through to Market Street. The electricity show room is now Tillions glass and china shop.

The Castle Hotel, with its gabled roof and solid appearance, takes its name from Hadleigh Castle.Although this photograph shows the High Street, it lacks the bustle we see today.A small garage is tucked

We are looking up Lion Street towards St Mary's church, the Town Hall and Fletcher's House in summer sunlight nearly a century ago.

We are now standing in a position to the east of the Cross and are looking towards West Street, with Church Hill on the immediate right of the pantiled lean-to building and the Star Inn

This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.

It is ten past twelve on a summer's afternoon in the mid-sixties in this sleepy North Cumbrian town - and there is not a vehicle in sight in the length of the long Main Street.

He was born in Breadmarket Street, where his father ran a bookshop.

Few streets still follow their original medieval plans, though not all have been lost since 1945. Butcher Row went long ago.

The chief benefactors of the church were the Peel and Hargreaves families, and Peel Street and Avenue Parade follow the route of the carriage drive from Accrington House, one of the homes of the Peels.

The narrow cobbled streets of Staithes wind down to the North Sea. Cobles (the local fishing boats, based on a Viking design) are pulled up above the Easington Beck as it flows out into the sea.

At the end of the street, with the tall chimney, is the 15th-century Doverhay Manor, now Porlock's museum.

Further along the High Street, we see the Black Bull (left) with the White Lion in the distance. The Black Bull opened in 1687, and was altered in the 18th century.

The High Street has many interesting houses, some dating back to the 16th century. Over the years they have been repaired and re-fronted, making them look more modern than they really are.

We are looking along Acre End Street. The thatched building on the right housed the premises of Acre End Stores, run by T Hall & Son.

The house to the right of the arched entrance at the far end of the street is where the poet Chaucer once lived.

But this 1950s view of Long Street shows some of the older, Georgian cottages at the top end of the village, where annual horse and sheep fairs were held until the late 1960s.

This village view looks north past Street Farm on the right, and although the big barn on the right has gone, the houses all remain.

The policeman on point duty at the busy junction of the High Street, Eastgate, and Star Hill stands in the seemingly flimsy protection of a small, wheeled cubicle to carry out his duties of directing the

After a serious fire in 1975, the 18th-century building with the black cross facing us at the end of Bridge Street, formerly the Crown Inn, was demolished; this caused a major outcry.

In the 1960s two large housing estates were laid out on the east and west of the main street, and in 1972 a Village Society was formed to oppose the continued growth.