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Robert Burns played in this churchyard as a boy, and the popular legends about hauntings and the ghostly atmosphere of the roofless ruin affected him deeply.

Until the mid-19th century, the building was a private house but it became school property in 1851 and was converted into boys' studies for School House.

Next door is early 19th- century No.77, and the trees screen Elm House which was Albert Edward Skewes's academy for boys.

Three carefully posed children standing on one side of the road contrast with two other boys stretched out on the opposite verge.

A street cleaner works below the church wall, while a boy seems interested in William Box's grocery, wine and spirit shop; two ladies approach Russell and Co's drapery shop next door.

They took over the existing St Mary's College, transforming it into a leading Roman Catholic public school for boys, which eventually closed in 1999.

Zenon Vantini, the first manager of the North Euston Hotel, backed by the Rev John St Vincent Beechey, put forward the idea of a boarding school for boys, and by 1904 the school was flourishing, despite

Boys used to arrive on the railway located down Old Station Road behind the photographer. The village shop seen here dates from 1856.

A barefoot boy with a stick guides two donkeys back to their stand on the pullover.

These small boys and girls can have had no idea how these quiet roads, with their trim family homes, would have been ravaged within the coming century by the effects of modern development.

Note the refreshment rooms (now a house) on the right, and the boy in shorts in the centre of the photograph.

This palatial neo-Georgian building was opened in 1913 as the boys' Grammar School, in the right part of the building, and the girls' High School on the left.

Being on the far side of the Lancaster Canal from the centre, the school was considered to be out in the country, and the air was good for the boys.

When enlarged, this photograph reveals that a couple of the boys in the street are bare-footed.

The boy on his bicycle is probably calculating to see if his pocket money would be enough to buy the latest toy on display in the window.

The picture shows the property in its present use as a private school for boys and girls.

The two hanging signs on the left are for the Black Boy, where King George VI lunched during the Second World War. On the right are the Ideal Fish Restaurant, Lloyds Bank and Joy's fashions.

The boys' half of the school moved to Wormley in 1867, taking on its new name. The girls' school relocated here in 1952.

In 1862 she became a boys' training ship, a role she fulfilled until 1906 when she was sent for breaking up.

Many people visit the Black Boy Inn, which has expansive views northwards across the vale towards North Marston.

In the centre of the Market Place, a busy intersection even before cars were invented, was the Toll Booth (demolished 1857) and the Boy and Barrel Inn (removed 1898).

Beyond it can be seen Widnes's war memorial which lists 818 men from the town who died in the First World War, the youngest a boy aged only 15.

Hart and Smith next to each other seem to sell just about everything anyone could want - postcards, wooden hoops, newspapers, parasols, toys and groceries.

A man and a two-wheeled horse and cart and the boys in the foreground wait patiently for the photographer to complete his record. The mill ceased work in 1912, and was accidentally burnt down in 1921.