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The Star in the High Street, built in the early 16th century, was a hostelry and resting place for abbots and monks from surrounding priories and manors and also for pilgrims.

When this photograph was taken, the four-story building facing the camera with three gabled windows in the roof was The Royal George Hotel, which looked onto King Street Parade.

A young boy pushes a handcart towards the camera on this street running south towards the church of St Peter, as two elegantly hatted ladies drive their pony and trap past a sunbathing dog on the pavement

Just further on across North Street, the new building is Newman's, the first supermarket- style shop to open in Daventry. It is now the offices of the Nationwide Building Society.

School House stands at the corner of Market Place and Market Street. The Hospital of Christ, built in 1398, stood on this site, which was once known as Baresplace. School House was erected in 1853.

The church-like building on the corner of Kettering Road (now Lower Street) has since been demolished, and a modern community centre stands on its site.

In the late 19th century this area of Norfolk Street offered such delights as Mrs Elizabeth Cockerill, china, glass and earthenware dealer, Plowright & Pratt (extreme right), ironmongers by

On the left we can see Barclay's Bank, on the corner of Cricklade Street. This building opened as the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank in 1885 and is now used as offices and as a hairdresser's salon.

Horse-drawn vehicles dominate the street scene as a coach and four with at least 10 passengers approaches.

Just off the main street in North Road is the Methodist church. Some of the village shops were built from corrugated iron before modernisation in the early 1960s.

Bridge Street curves down to the river. A variety of architecture is to be enjoyed here, from red brick houses to timber-framed cottages.

Hope Cottage near the church is dated 1888, and at No 16 Church Street a tall tree has replaced what looks like a broken-off post (right).

The buildings on the corner of Church Street were owned by Hayward & Sons, who traded from the adjacent shop (right). In the distance is Ashford House, the former King's Head Inn.

The Channel, the main access to the Market Place before the formation of King Street, is in the centre, continuing up towards the top left as Frenchgate, past St Mary's parish church.

The Victorian wealth of the town is shown in the fine buildings in this view of the main shopping street, with the Halifax Building Society, which started here, prominent on the right.

On the edge of Romney Marsh, this village, with its broad street, was once a flourishing seaport and shipbuilding centre; it was captured by the Danes with a fleet of 250 ships in the 9th century.

The trees have grown, and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind

Also taken from the Town Hall, this photograph shows that the main street was less congested than it is today.

The village street at Bothenhampton (middle distance, left to right), with suburbia beyond, seen from the vicinity of Quarry Farm with an apple orchard and thatched cottages above

This is the landscape northwards from the limekilns and quarries north of Wych to the Main Street at Bothenhampton (left to right).

The tall building beyond and all those on the left beyond the Baptist Church were demolished for car parks, inner relief roads, and a roundabout: Blucher Street is very much truncated nowadays

Looking east from Blucher Street this view shows how steeply the chalk hills rise behind the town, still undeveloped.

Park Street taxi rank still operates but is no longer equine!

Prime Minister Harold Wilson was born here, and attended New Street Council School.