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The lampposts have changed, and the telephone cables and posts have disappeared. The houses do not appear to have changed, and even the grass verge is still in good condition.

The adjacent post office was erected in 1881, with statues of Industry, Electricity, Steam and Commerce standing below the Royal Arms.

In the distance the post office and house remain, but the next house has been demolished.

Lurking behind the post office is the parish church, which became a cathedral in 1919.

In 1909 the Post Office - the white building with the sloping roof - was destroyed by floods, and moved into the building next door.

The post-war tennis courts on the left are no longer there, and the grounds are now the venue for events such as open-air dramas and historical re-enactments.

Curl Brothers owned the huge shop on the right of the picture, which was floodlit at night by the eight lamp posts erected on the pavement. Curls was a popular forerunner of today's department stores.

Around the time this picture was taken, a number of post-medieval pottery kilns were found in the village.

In this view the Beehive shop and the dormered cottage beyond survive, but the buildings beyond have been rebuilt for Townsends and the Post Office.

Over the years it has lost one chimneystack. All the telegraph posts have also disappeared. The fence is more substantial now, as it is a tall green hedge.

As well as retail outlets and the main post office, there were a number of buildings along Queen Street which dated from the earlier decades of the 19th century, including the Mechanics’ Institute

Notice the tram (advertising the Cornish Post newspaper) parked at the terminus of the newly opened Camborne and Redruth Tramway - this small operation lasted until 1927.

On the right, next to the last parked vehicle, was the town's main post office before the current one was built in St John's Square.

The stocks, along with the pillory and the whipping post, were instruments of punishment at one time in use throughout England.

Controversially, he removed the plasterwork - thus exposing the timber-framing - and disposed of the 500-year- old arches between the posts on the ground floor.

The tall iron posts support the power wire. Amongst this modernity, there are still gas-fuelled street lights.

Looking back up North Street towards the Parade and Market House, with the Post Office on the left, as it still is today.

From about 1600 Broadway was a thriving staging post, and horse-drawn carriages by the dozen stopped here to feed and water en route from London to Worcester - a journey of more than 17 hours.

Several old houses still survive, and the general store and post office were built in the garden of one of them.

From 1874 until 1987 this was Cheltenham's main post office, and today it is a department store.

The name of the village and the river comes from the Meonware tribe, who were Jutish settlers of the post-Roman period. The Buck's Head pub can be seen on the right.

There is also a post box. This building stands on the corner of Barrack Street, and is now a private house.

The post office and the two houses to the right were originally one house of c1520. The next range to the left is also 16th-century; it contains Addisons' shop, which started in 1889.

To the right there is a pair of post war council houses, a typical development in most of our villages.