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Until 1866 there was a Market House and other buildings in the foreground, which were all swept away to re-open this part of the market place.

On the left, where the road sweeps round the corner, is the toll house for Lendal Bridge, built in 1863; it is now used as a teashop. The tram lines are plainly visible.

The half-timbered house on the right dates from Tudor times. Note how the timber work on the first floor projects, or jetties, from the ground floor stonework.

The crypt of St German's used to house the bishop's prison, where those found guilty by the ecclesiastical court were imprisoned. The bishop's prison was last used in 1780.

The Post Office, here with advertising signs for Senior Service cigarettes fixed to the shopfront, is now a house.

In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

The church of St John the Baptist was built c1450, and so was the timber- framed Guild House just visible beyond the church in this view.

The buildings in the foreground - including the Marchioness of Exeter's Almshouses - were demolished about 40 years ago and replaced by modern houses, garages and a car park.

To the left is the Manchester Warehouse, 'complete house furnishers'. The heavily laden coach appears to serve either the Royal Gatehouse or the Lion Hotel.

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

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.

Beyond is the White Horse, still in business, though the Northampton Brewery, with its NBC Star trademark, has long since passed into history.

The buildings by the road have been sold off recently and the land, like so much in Mobberley, is being developed for housing.

Off West Street, behind Sparnham House, was the site of one of Ashburton's two umber mines - the only ones in the country.

Temple Newsam was bought by Leeds Corporation in 1922 from Edward Wood, the future Lord Halifax.The first house known to have been built here belonged to Thomas, Lord Darcy, who was executed for

However, the Labour group on the council objected, as they did also to the proposed sale of council houses.

A plaque tells us that a fragment remains of the house in which Edward I held his parliament and in which the Statute of Rhuddlan was passed in 1284, and in the gable end medieval windows

The four houses on the right, built in 1817, are now private residences.

The public house on the right, the Corn Exchange, advertises stabling.

He spotted a young ash tree growing by a fence and named the house after it.

In the distance is a corn-grinding post mill (centre left), possibly owned at this time by a Mr Mallett, whose worry was that the building of houses nearby would keep the wind from the mill's sails

Today, Worcestershire County Museum is housed in the north wing.

Most of the houses on the left-hand side cater for holidaymakers, and new businesses have opened up to capture their trade. The pub on the left is the White Horse Inn dating from 1851.

It remained in use as a private house until about 1959, from when it served as an hotel for about forty years.