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He demolished the old village and constructed a grand castle, rehousing the local people in well-designed Georgian dwellings along the new Main Street.

The 130ft-high neo-Gothic Wallace Tower, in the High Street, was completed in 1832. It replaced an earlier structure in which Sir William Wallace was alleged to have been imprisoned.

He agreed to reduce the burden if she would ride naked through the streets. This she did, with her long hair strategically placed, and Leofric honoured his promise.

Here we see the Victoria Hotel in Nevill Street.

We have reached the era of fish and chips, wrapped in newspaper and eaten possibly in the street or in Smart's Fried Fish Saloon (right).

The jumble of gables and chimneys on the right of the street represents a 17th-century house; opposite it is the entrance to Chichele College, founded by Archbishop Chichele in 1422.

East of photograph N251008, Frith's photographer looks along Church Street with the 15th-century tower of St Michael's church on the right. Unusually, its lower stage is open and serves as a porch.

The best of the old village is around the parish church, particularly in the quaintly named street, Hickmire.

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 tiny houses further along the street have been rebuilt into one house with two dormer windows in the roof.

Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.

The old town, quaint and picturesque, is situated on the low ground near the edge of the harbour, and as a matter of course, the streets are very narrow.

The camera is looking along Church Street, which curves away uphill to the village square of Ticehurst, another Wealden iron-making village.

From the 18th century onwards houses and shops were built that were to bring the street its reputation for refined living.

The terrace of shops stepping down the High Street, beyond the busy junction with Carshalton Road and William Pile Ltd (the stuccoed corner building), was erected in 1880.

This view looks east towards the High Street, past the Post Office on the right.

The post-war years saw the spread of high-street chains, and Chesterfield was no exception. In this picture we can see local branches of Timsons, Alexander, Burtons, and Boots.

On the left the new building is inscribed Rochdale Vintners Co Ltd 1911 and it extends through to Yorkshire Street as Yates` Wine Lodge. It has listed building status.

Leading away from the Market Place (the Market House is visible in the distance) is Silver Street. The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view.

The long arm hanging over the pumps used to swing round to the vehicles waiting in the street. Imagine the road rage if there were such obstructions today.

Just a couple of miles from Haywards Heath railway station is the attractive and ancient village of Lindfield, named after the lime (or linden) trees which flank the village High Street.

The buildings on the High Street which we can see behind the horse (left), were demolished to widen the road for 20th- century traffic.

‘The newest fashion newspaper and the oldest-style tavern still jostle each other now as they did a century or more ago.’This bustling street was once the home of the British press.The working day

It grew both in physical size - occupying a rabbit warren of connected shops on the corner of Cattle Market and Market Street - and in its range of goods.