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The town's arcaded Market House of 1870 stands in the Square. The local dark building stone has given Dolgellau much of its character.

Thomas Williams and George Barrat appear to have kept bawdy houses.

The Associated British Cinema's picture house is photographed at a time when such places had fewer things to compete with for people's time and money; private car ownership was still beyond most people

By 1812 the schools run by John Whittaker had over 2,000 children enrolled, and ideally Whittaker needed one large building to house them all.

The turreted and lead domed building of 1903, now Dorothy Perkins, survives, but the left hand one was replaced by a nine-storey monster office block, Berkshire House, and others were swept away in the

The houses nearest us were once commercial premises—a hardware store and a tailor's. To the right of them lies Swan Meadow, once home to the village fair.

Ballon's motte to the right is topped by a 19th-century hunting lodge, which now houses the town's museum.

The Quart Pot, a Baddow Brewery house, was where Wickford's Salvation Army had their early meetings.

Until recently this scene could be said not to have changed, but the Lion Hotel, which is also a public house, was recently (in early 2005) converted into an indian restaurant.

Here the merchants of the city built their imposing new houses, most of which remain today.

To the front of the view is the lifeboat house and boat park. The lifeboat was once crewed by women when the men of the crew were caught in a squall.

The whole harbour and dockland area has been the subject of a major housing development over the past few years, leaving photographs such as this one as the only evidence of what was there before.

Two buildings further down is the Brotherhood House. Next to Blindell's is the Croft.

In the foreground is the Grand Union Canal, with the houses of Blisworth and the 15th-century tower of the church to be seen on the opposite bank.

But the old manor house is a reminder that this is a very old site, dating back to the 16th century.

Beyond it, the shop has since been demolished and replaced by a 1970s flat-roofed health centre. 1950s council houses in Dolben Square are visible on the left.

Major changes here since 1955 include modern 1960s houses, mostly bungalows, on Hillmorton Lane, beyond the signpost, and the telephone kiosk which has migrated to the foreground Green.

The flimsy houses were clearly not designed to face the water, for the windows are few and diminutive.The crumbling facades bring a clear impression of neglect and poverty.

to No 43714, above, and taken five years later shows cows grazing in the Meadows, a cowshed in the shadow of the Grammar School (far right) and an even better view of the upper part of the Chantry House

On the right, the dry dock has been half filled in by Thanet Ice Company, and an ice house has been built to supply ice to the fishing smacks.

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

This photograph was taken from St James's Park, and shows the Foreign Office building when it still also housed both the Commonwealth Office and the Home Office.

from long before the time when Machester's workers even considered the need to escape to live in more peaceful and cleaner areas, Chorley Hall is thought to be amongst the oldest inhabited timber-framed houses

In 1886 houses in front of St Mary's church were cleared; the railings date from about 1890. Much on the left has now disappeared to make way for the gruesome Broad Street Mall.