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The domed building, the Old White Horse and the overhead street lighting have also disappeared.

Here we can see the war memorial at the junction of High Street, Wollaston Road and Farndish Road, with steps leading up to the tall monument surmounted by a cross.

Now within the village, Frith's photographer looks down one of the estate roads, with their undistinguished 'Anywheresville' modern houses, towards the High Street.

Gothic-style drinking fountain of 1860 has been relocated to the cemetery in South Road, presumably to save it from the traffic, while the good stone-tile-roofed building beyond on the corner of South Street is

Here, a few street vendors have set out their stalls.

Note the complexity of building styles along the street line – the Victorians had no concern for harmony or for what was appropriate.

There is no such thing as an ordinary street in this town. True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares.

The elongated Venetian window added a continental look to the street. The building is now demolished.

During the Edwardian era, Coney Street was the place for fashionable shopping.

The ivy-clad King's Head public house, on the right, is a popular local hostelry, although the gallows-type pub sign out in the street has long gone.

The clock tower dominates the main street of this West Cumberland town.

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

A guidebook in 1795 described Weobley as having 'a few small streets meanly constructed, without either market or traffic'.

The road is widening as we look back towards the High Street. Owen the pharmacist was at No 61 (right) until 1958, next door to the King David Inn, which was to close in 1973.

There are few places in the Black Country as attractive as this secluded corner of Old Swinford, where superb Georgian houses grace quiet streets below a medieval church.

Here, a few street vendors have set out their stalls.

This view shows the backs of buildings along Kempock Street. Kempock Place is just in view on the extreme left of the picture.

The street is very narrow, and at one point outstretched hands can touch each other from the opposite sides of the upper storeys.

Women, their daughters and a delivery boy stand for the camera where the street climbs to St Mary Magdalene Church.

With the waters of Lyme Bay visible beyond the Hillcliff grocery store further down this steeply-sloping street, the pleasing 18th-century façades of the shops and buildings frame this scene of late

This final glimpse of old Hastings is a photograph that captures all the charms of the old town, with St Clement's Church at the end of the street.

The old Crown Hotel is soon to close and become another High Street shop.

We have moved nearer still to the bow-fronted building where the street narrows. The motor car has clearly ousted not only the horse but also, apparently, the bicycle.

This view shows the backs of buildings along Kempock Street. Kempock Place is just in view on the extreme left. Over to the right is Seaton's temperance hotel, one of several in the town.