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In 1956 an RAF plane crash demolished the Queens Head Hotel in the High Street, along with several other buildings.

Most of the other buildings depicted here in North Street have also all gone, and no local farmer or carter would now ever contemplate bringing a horse-drawn conveyance into the heart of contemporary

In the distance, a window cleaner's ladders can just be seen in the High Street, and beyond them the sign of the Bell Hotel.

The High Street is remarkably quiet, but it is captured at a time of largely horse-drawn transport.

Further north along Gateford Road, near the Gladstone Street turn, the spire of St John the Evangelist's can be seen on the right behind the tall three-storey terrace of 1870s shops.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

As we look down to the junction with Watling Street, on the left is the former W H Smith's shop, now offering haircuts!

This view of Welton, looking back up the main street, has changed dramatically in recent years.

This is a busy junction leading from the Market Place, left to Spa Road, and right to King Street. Cleverlys the cycle agent (far right) is now a video shop.

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town.The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.The bank, with its solid door, is half hidden by

Wheelock Street, pictured here, is now a busy one-way road.

clearance started in 1923 may have been prompted by comments like that of John Thompson, who spoke one hundred years previously of the 'very depressed and profligate inhabitants of Hollow Lane and Dead Street

The roofs behind, parallel to the High Row of the Market Place, are houses in Waterloo Street, demolished in 1963.

A view of the 19th century colonnade at the Market Buildings in Earl Street. This was built in 1825.

Among the many old buildings in this stretch of the High Street is the Tudor brick Eastgate House, seen on the right, and now the Charles Dickens Centre.

It is thought that their stone came from buildings in Gold Street which were demolished in 1887.

This road runs between Coggeshall Road and Bradford Street; it replaced the old road, which ran 30 or 40 metres back from the left-hand side of this picture, when Sydney Courtauld built Bocking Place

There is a splendid proportion of medieval and Tudor timber-framed houses; it is even more astonishing that the market infill between Middle Row and the High Street survived traffic imperatives.This view

It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers

This is the junction of St Sepulchre Gate and the High Street. It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch.

It is mid-afternoon in the quiet main street of Sandgate, with a single-decker tramcar passing by on its way to Folkestone.

This steep-roofed brick building with rather a Gothic flavour, designed by G E Street, replaced a block of fives courts.

The building on the left with the urns along its parapet (which do not survive) is part of High Street Colonnade, a 1930 development in Adam style built along the north side of the Chapel Arches

Park Road eventually became Park Street, and is now fully developed through to its link with the modern relief roads to the south of Luton.