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As one of four major thoroughfares leading to the Town Centre, and formerly called Tower Hill, Manchester Street's importance was typified by the presence of many privately-owned shops and businesses and

Trade was brisk here, for sailors approaching from South Quay saw this hostelry before all others, and there were about 400 pubs to choose from in the town in the 19th century!

The school is a beautiful knapped flint and brick structure, and so is its surrounding wall; it was built in 1876.

Of the businesses that surrounded the square in 1922, only four remain in their original positions: Barclay's Bank, originally built for the East Cornwall Bank in 1885 with the town clock on its corner

Founded in 1776 by Sir James Colquhoun of Luss (who named the town after his wife), Helensburgh has become popular as a holiday resort and as a golfing, fishing and yachting centre.

On the far side of the Severn, a boathouse and rowing boats indicate a swing to tourist trade.

When this photograph was taken, Blackburn had two markets, the indoor market and an open air one, held every Wednesday and Saturday.

The town is named after the grange, or storage place for grain, belonging to the monks of Cartmel Priory.

Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.

South-eat of Chesham town centre the road runs alongside the River Chess in its flat-bottomed valley.

The curving parade remains little altered in 1965, but already shop fronts are becoming gaudy and fascias oversized.

Crowds stroll along the pier, beside the original Pier Pavilion, which is advertising the popular French conductor Jules Rivieres and his grand orchestra.

The horizontal distribution of the buildings shows how the houses had to be built in terraces, thanks to the town's hilly location.

The architectural quality falls off somewhat in the southern part of the town.

A new town was laid out from 1876 by the Earl of Scarbrough; in 1881 it acquired a splendid pier, seen here and unrecognisable to the modern visitor.

He said of the event 'I stood under a large tree and called most of the inhabitants of the town . . . it seemed as if all that heard were almost persuaded to be Christians'.

A popular stop-off for cyclists and walkers from the local towns long ago, this small settlement included the well known Cross Keys Inn, now derelict - as are most of the other buildings we see here.

The tall building on the right, where the delivery vehicle is parked outside, is that of the London and Provincial Bank.

From the south-east, a look at the Institute, which has now sprouted a clock, put up in 1891 in memory of Thomas Cramp, the town's diarist and total abstainer.

The Duke of York is one of Burnley's landmark inns, and gives its name to this part of town.

The arches around the veranda carry the shields of the Lancashire towns who supported the movement.

The London & Provincial Bank established itself c1883, relocating to a vacant school building on the corner of Stanwell Road c1886.

A large number of its fine stone buildings now dominate the north part of the town.

This view is one of several in the Frith archive taken from the Town Hall roof.