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This photograph looks eastwards along East Street from the southern pavement, with the Midland Bank opposite (left).

The Castle and Ball Hotel, an old established commercial hotel and posting house on the north side of the High Street, has a distinctive tile-hung front with pierced barge-boards decorating

Fair Green lies past the junction of Bell Street and Knight Street and of the site of the town pump. It has an air of quiet elegance in the centre of this bustling town.

On the B1368 road a mile or so north of Braughing stands the small community of Hay Street.

A Roman settlement on Stane Street and the navigable River Arun. The village encompasses riverside and hillside, and has a main line railway station. The 15th-century church is on the hillside.

Princes Street and the Scott Monument from the gardens.

In the High Street several very high quality brick-fronted houses were erected with fashionable sash windows, modillioned cornices and parapets.

An old street trader has pushed his hand cart into the middle of the street and nonchalantly weighs out vegetables regardless of passing traffic.

The High Street may look quiet and rural, but five years earlier this street was pounded with traffic day and night.

Both photographs show the view looking east towards the Town Hall; apart from the cobbled street, the main difference is the loss of the Lion Hotel (left) itself a merger in 1866 of the King's Head Inn

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

This is the main shopping street, and it leads up to the Victorian clock tower at one end from the railway station at the other.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a number of new streets were built following the grid pattern of the mediaeval town.

Building started in 1865 to designs by G E Street, the architect of the Law Courts in London.

John Bunyan, author of 'Pilgrim's Progress', was born near Elstow, and lived in a cottage on Elstow High Street for four years after marrying his first wife.

This photograph, taken from the tower of the Town Hall, looks down past the formal square to the buildings of Bishop Street, which include the reference library by Edward Burgess of 1904 and the former

This marvellously detailed view of the High Street before it was transformed into a pedestrian precinct was taken from the first floor of the Cock Hotel.

In contrast to the picturesque qualities of St Andrews Old Church to its south, the late arrival has a not surprisingly metropolitan arrogance, as it was moved stone by stone from Well Street, close to

The High Street, fashioned in the 1930s, drops down to the original village centre, with the graveyard to St Martins church on the immediate right.

Although Church Street has had much rebuilding in recent years it still retains its character and is one of the best streets in the old town.

The High Street may look quiet and rural, but five years earlier this street was pounded with traffic day and night.

Dudley High Street is quite short compared to those in neighbouring towns. This view up towards top church takes in about half of it. The prominence of the church tower is emphasised well.

Much of the rest of the street survives, but the street lamp is not as interesting as the 1893 one seen in photograph 31692.

The quiet High Street, populated only by a Ford 105E Anglia, a Wolseley Hornet, a Ford Consul, and (peeping out of the corner on the left) a Fordson tractor, is a far cry from the days when Swavesey