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E J Baker, the High Street butcher, was delivering to the substantial houses, many of which still stand today.

The main part of the new outside market lies along Peel Street; its construction forced the alteration of the bus station into a line of stands on each side of the street.

Ugly new street furniture in the form of electric street lamps begin to make an appearance.

Taken from the canal bridge, this photograph shows Bridgewater Street, looking towards Eagle Brow.

This section of Bridge Street has changed drastically since this view towards Market Gate was taken.

Warston Pictures proudly presents 'My Six Convicts' at its Cameo Cinema on the corner of Springfield Street, opposite Bank House (right.)

The Vine Tavern competes for trade on the corner of Market Street and Lyme Street to the right.

We are in Queen Street and looking across to the High Street, where we see the spire of All Saints Church.

North Street leads out of the town in the direction of Cowdray Park, with which the town is most closely associated.

There are now traffic lights and a great deal more traffic where this policeman stands on point duty at the junction of High Street with Corporation Street (left) and Star Hill (right).

Originally, the fire station was at the southern end of Mill Street, next to the Salvation Army Hall. By 1955 a new station had been built on the corner of Brooke Road and South Street.

This elegant colonnaded street, with its upper storeys supported on slender Ionic columns, is now cleaned and restored, and the distracting fountain has been moved.

Friar Street was an odd assortment of buildings, including a number of 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered houses and shops.

Today, at the back of 16 High Street lies Petersfield Physic Garden. In 1961 Petersfield's population was 7,000, while today it is 14,000.

The quiet street scene gives no hint of an industrial past. All we can see in this photograph are cottages and the village shop. It had a weekly market from 1253 until it was closed in 1982.

Our photographer now proceeds east along the High Street, a relatively narrow street with a mix of 17th-century and later fronts, now pedestrianised.

The High Street was named in the 13th century, when buildings were recorded east of Beeding Bridge.

Across the street is the entrance to Mercery Lane, with the overhanging beams of a former pilgrims' inn, the Chequer of Hope, which once stretched back to the Buttermarket.

Continuing uphill past the end of The Paragon and at the junction with Guinea Lane, Roman Road heads for the junction with a steeply climbing Walcot Street and London Road.

For many years Grammar School pupils used North Street to reach their sports ground at the bottom of the hill. We now return up the hill to High Street.

Sharing its name with the river in whose valley it lies, Darwen grew rapidly as a result of industrialisation in the early 19th century, and many of the buildings along Market Street were

To the left of the street is a gate, erected in 1766, which leads to Holy Trinity Church.

In the 1850s, Cheapside was one of the most fashionable shopping streets in London, with a 'mighty stream of traffic' flowing through from Oxford Street to Leadenhall and the City.

The houses in South Street become smaller in scale than in the other three streets meeting at the central Market Cross.