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This view looks back along High Street. The two buildings either side of the turning into Albert Road have long gone, to be replaced by new offices.

The three ugly new traffic signs and modern street lights are also a sign of the times.

Local gentry applied for an Act of Parliament to allow them to build a new town and to develop the harbour, and work began in 1807, when the grid of streets was laid out.

Bursledon village consists of two distinct halves—the new and the old.

The external view shows the war memorial, which now has the inevitable extension beneath it to include those who died in the Second World War.

In the foreground on the left is the Huntingdon Co-operative store, but overshadowing the whole of the street is the spire of Trinity Church.

The Cornish Arms on the left has got a new sign on a post by the roadside, the monkey puzzle has been felled, and there is now a tangle of overhead electric wires spreading out from their poles.

After crossing the Wye Bridge, our man from Frith captured plenty of activity and detail in this photograph of the main street.

Almost brand new at the time this photograph was taken, the first multi-storey car park of this size in the country opened on the site of Lee Street, the birthplace of Joseph Merrick, the tragic Elephant

A quarter of a century apart, this and the previous view of the High Street show how little it changed throughout the 20th century, with the exception of traffic problems and an increased number

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

We have moved nearer still to the bow-fronted building where the street narrows. The motor car has clearly ousted not only the horse but also, apparently, the bicycle.

There are few cars parked along the street, but in those days private car ownership amid working families was still something of a novelty.

Much of the older town has gone, but in and around the High Street there are still reminders of Crawley as it used to be.

The farmhouses and cottages all have steps down to the street because the old unmetalled road to Cambridge had been gradually lowered by use.

Chapel Street has changed drastically since this picture was captured. There are now traffic islands in the middle of the road.

This photograph gives us a good view of the new sea wall built as part of the widening of the Promenade.

The dated 1960s architecture of Oxford House opposite faces demolition - clearance of the Hayes/Bridge Street site is scheduled to make way for a vast new retail complex.

The medieval route from the Aldreth crossing to Ely went along the High Street. The view from the church tower is of brick farmhouses and brick cottages with picket fences.

As the town grew further away from the village and the parish church, a new Anglican place of worship was necessary.

At the time of this photograph, traffic was not excluded from this street. A delivery van stands beside the Olde Pork Pie Shoppe of Dickinson and Morris.

The south-west side of Ware High Street changed drastically when it was decided to build a new Tesco Store in 1960.

Along the street in the picture was a special bath house, as well as a number of new hotels and lodgings.

The three ugly new traffic signs and modern street lights are also a sign of the times.