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The town, a prosperous agricultural centre, consists mainly of this long street, with its attractive lines of trees, which widens at its west end into a picturesque boulevard with grass verges.

Potter Street Junior School and the infant school were on the same campus, and were typical of the many schools that had to be provided quickly for the very large percentage of school-age children in Harlow

tucked round the corner in Myddylton Place and can only be seen by those who explore the town on foot, for the apparent cul-de-sac leads through a twitchell (a local name for an alleyway) into the High Street

The initials of the former can still be seen on the premises of the NatWest in Westgate Street.

The initials of the former can still be seen on the premises of the NatWest in Westgate Street.

A double-decker bus brings trade to the town's main shopping street. Batley was one of the pioneers of steam trams; they ran from 1874, and the depot in Bradford Road later became Wilson's Mill.

The 18th-century Royal Hop Pole Hotel on the right- hand side of the street, with its wrought iron, flower- bedecked canopy and window boxes, is featured in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers

Though the old man could be delivering milk, yokes were used for carrying all manner of things up the steep streets.

Abington Street, now partly pedestrianised, saw considerable changes after this view was taken.

Here we look east along the River Witham, flowing out of Brayford Pool, with the High Street reached by steps from each bank.

Next to St Andrew's Methodist and United Reformed Church (left of photograph) is No 8 Long Street, originally the home of Joseph Needham, a surgeon who was described in his obituary as 'perhaps the most

Much of the street furniture was removed by the start of the 21st century, leaving a more traffic-dominated Esplanade.

This quaint scene beside the aviary yielded to a new roundabout where Eastern Avenue/Newbury Road crosses the old coach road to London, New Street/Vigo Road.

Hesba Stretton is a little-known writer who was born in New Street, to the left of the timber framed building at the far end of the square.

the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house on the corner of Handley Street

On the right by the pillar box is a circulating library; across the street is the Lantern Bakery, next door to H Brooks, grocer and Italian warehouseman.

There are almost as many visitors in this High Street as there are in its neighbour Cromer, with every other premises a cafe or public house.

This view of the unpaved main crossroads at the junction of the High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old

Here we see the busy High Street in the days long before it was pedestrianised. The large building at the end of the road is the impressive Shire Hall, built 1789-1791; it serves as the courthouse.

Popular Sabden attractions are Pendle Antiques Centre in Union Street and Pendle Toy and Train Museum. A favourite walk is down the valley between the rivers Calder and Ribble.

The town, a prosperous agricultural centre, consists mainly of this long street, with its attractive lines of trees, which widens at its west end into a picturesque boulevard with grass verges.

At the bottom end of the High Street is The Vale, a park formally opened in 1937 in fields between the now vanished London and North Western Railway station (demolished in 1960) and the gas works, also

The next building has been demolished, and so has the whole of the right side of the street.

At the top of the High Street stands the old National School, now the Village Hall (centre).