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Butter Row School, in the foreground, stands detached some distance from the community it served. It closed more than a generation ago. Thrupp clings to the hillside on the left.

The wall and trees on the left have now gone, and the Sportsman's pub now stands here.

The stream which rises at Lavenham Hall used to flow here, but now it runs in a brick culvert underground.

At the time of this photograph, the prospect from the Pleasure Gardens then allowed a view of the fairly new Parish Church, but other buildings now obstruct it.

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.

The boathouse on the north side has also been the base for rowing clubs. Fishing was 6d a day or 10s a season in 1872. A record-breaking 26lbs 14oz pike was caught in 1982.

Whether it be Blackpool, Dunoon, Port Bannatyne, Port Erin or any of a hundred other resorts in the 1890s, holidaymakers had developed a passion for messing about in boats, mainly of the rowing variety

In the foreground one of the new electric trams is passing a row of horse wagonettes. Competition between the two was fierce, with cabbies often driving slowly in front of a tram to delay it.

Behind the photographer, Dame Alice Street passes the Harpur Almshouses, a long row of brick cottages in the Tudor style thought suitable for such buildings, erected by the Harpur Trust in 1806 but refronted

A row of small fishing boats is drawn up on the beach; they were used to gather shrimps and lobsters. A lifeboat station (left background) was at the ready to cope with any rescue missions at sea.

The man in the rowing boat appears to be getting ready to pull the yacht off.

Tom Rowe, the Lancashire cheese factor, lived at York House in Bilsborrow.

A short distance downstream from Fell Foot, a young boy watches for fish in the shallow, reed-grown water by the shore, apparently in charge of a large rowing boat.

Rows of neat cottages line the road; not far away, though not visible here, is the timber-framed St Mary's House.

The wide end of the Ironmarket was also known as Butchers' Row; even its supply of water came to the surface courtesy of the Butchery Pump.

The groynes on the beach indicate the ferocious tidal currents; in 1931 these currents seriously undermined a row of cottages up the road on the seaward side, that were subsequently

Furthermore, we can see a row of horse-drawn brakes, which shows that the tourist trade was expanding.

The row of cottages on the left is known as Station Terrace, with the post office close to the camera with a post box and stamp machine set into the wall.

Thames' most famous locks captures well the increasing affluence of the middle and lower middle classes; they flocked out of London in their thousands onto the river at weekends, hiring punts, skiffs, rowing

The wide end of the Ironmarket was also known as Butchers' Row; even its supply of water came to the surface courtesy of the Butchery Pump.

The row of shops remains, although the proprietors have changed. The road outside has changed too - the grass verge has disappeared under a road-widening scheme.

Opposite is a row of cottages; the left-hand one is called Lace Cottage, a reminder of an important cottage industry for women hereabouts, which supplemented the men's meagre agricultural labourers

Part of the hedge is now railings, but the row of Lombardy poplars survive, now more mature, and so does the plane tree (right).

When the row of houses next door to it was built in the 1860s, it must have almost doubled the population of the village.