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It is thought that their stone came from buildings in Gold Street which were demolished in 1887.

This road runs between Coggeshall Road and Bradford Street; it replaced the old road, which ran 30 or 40 metres back from the left-hand side of this picture, when Sydney Courtauld built Bocking Place

There is a splendid proportion of medieval and Tudor timber-framed houses; it is even more astonishing that the market infill between Middle Row and the High Street survived traffic imperatives.This view

It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers

This is the junction of St Sepulchre Gate and the High Street. It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch.

It is mid-afternoon in the quiet main street of Sandgate, with a single-decker tramcar passing by on its way to Folkestone.

This steep-roofed brick building with rather a Gothic flavour, designed by G E Street, replaced a block of fives courts.

The building on the left with the urns along its parapet (which do not survive) is part of High Street Colonnade, a 1930 development in Adam style built along the north side of the Chapel Arches

Park Road eventually became Park Street, and is now fully developed through to its link with the modern relief roads to the south of Luton.

We are looking north from Bridge Street.

Wesley's Cottage, on the north side of the High Street to the west of the Town Hall, where the founding preacher of Methodism stayed on the night of 12-13 October 1774.

The street is now a cul-de-sac, following the opening of the by-pass in the 1980s.

Off West Street, behind Sparnham House, was the site of one of Ashburton's two umber mines - the only ones in the country.

This road runs between Coggeshall Road and Bradford Street; it replaced the old road, which ran 30 or 40 metres back from the left-hand side of this picture, when Sydney Courtauld built Bocking Place

En route to Street, divert to climb to Windmill Hill: here, a splendid monument commemorates the great British admiral, Sir Samuel Hood, who died in 1814.

John Heathcoat and John Boden had a factory in Mill Street (now Market Street) making lace by powered machinery. This mill became the focus of the lacemakers' pent up anger in 1816.

It became yet another of Northamptonshire's boot and shoe manufacturing towns in the later 19th century and was greatly enlarged, with streets of Victorian terrace housing.

This view looks from Little Street into the somewhat grandly named The Square, where now the central tree is a forlorn stump.

Further south, High Street opens up to the river, the buildings terminating in an elegant early 19th-century five-storey warehouse with a hipped roof: more like a very tall villa than a warehouse.

This view, looking north, shows a traffic-free street.

The small slate-hung building on the right stands between Pudding Bag Lane and Fish Street, but was swept away in the 1930s to widen access to the latter.

A member of the local constabulary is on point duty in Lord Street.

These continued to run through Tyrell Street until 5 November 1949. Bradford's complete tram system closed on 6 May 1950 when trolleybuses took over - they lasted until 26 March 1972.

There was probably strong competition between the Black Bull and the Old King's Arms across the street - the latter boasts a billiard room and is the meeting place for the Horsforth Harriers.