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At the far end of the street, the impressive church-like building is actually the Town Hall, designed in the Gothic style by Sir George Gilbert Scott and completed in 1867.

Even in the humbler areas of town the same high standards of planning were applied, and wide, uncluttered streets and pavements are a refreshing contrast to the standards favoured by today's developers

At the top of the street is St Paul's Church, there since 1230, but considerably rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century.

Opposite on the corner of Bridge Street is the shop run by Len Mylott in the 1950s.

This view of the village square, complete with its war memorial, shows the winding nature of the main village street; a coach is on its way to Chesterfield, 10 miles away to the west.

Many of the houses along this street feature the locally made brown bricks.

This is at the end of the village street, cut off by the bypass which nearly runs between the two 'goal posts' (left) - this idyllic view cannot be seen today.

At the south end of the street is a small green, with the 1964 Best Kept Village sign.

Immediately south- west of the village and approached via Church Street is Langold Country Park, dominated by a fine lake.

The New Bear Hotel, left, is now Silver Street House, having been restored by Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust in 1977.

At the east end of Spilman Street is St Peter's Church, an old building on the highest ground in the older portion of the town. Little is known about this church, including the date of its erection.

Neatly-kept stone and timber-framed cottages punctuate the lane that is the main street. This area is described as a walkers' paradise; one of the many footpaths is signposted behind the school sign.

Of the two public houses shown here on the wide main street leading up to St Andrew's church, only the Fountain (centre right), originally known as the Crown and rebuilt after a fire in 1900, is still

This photograph shows the wide expanse of Westgate, a street typical of the old market towns in the area: there was room for animals being driven to market, market stalls, and all the people who came into

However, popular history associates these Tudor cottages on the corner of Eldon Street with Cromwell's visit to Warrington in 1648 whilst pursuing the Scottish army.

This is the lower end of the High Street, with the Long Shop complex off to the right and Victoria Road to the left.

There is no such thing as an ordinary street in this town. True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares.

The Bronte industry, founded in this pretty, cobble-streeted West Yorkshire town after the famous literary family made the Parsonage their home in 1820, was already well under way, if this 1950s photograph

The street is dominated by the Italianate clock tower, paid for by Joseph Pease; along with the Town Hall and covered market, it was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and built in 1864.

The narrow High Street, with its branch of the National Provincial Bank (later to become the National Westminster Bank) on the right, and the local Post Office, shoe-shop, and newsagents on the left, was

In the 1790s the Kennet and Avon Canal swept past at first floor window level of the 17th-century George Inn to cut it off from the High Street.

Closer in to the centre of the city, this view from the roof of the Abbey looks north along the High Street with the domed Georgian Guildhall on the right.

The end of the street opens out into the village square, complete with pump and clock, and overlooked (though not in this picture) by the church.

This is a low-angle shot up Church Street from beneath the horse chestnut trees in the churchyard (right) to the thatched Crown Inn (centre).