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Verran and Sons, fish and poultry purveyors, was a very popular shop, as was Betty Brown's Café, next door but one, where one could enjoy a cream tea served by smartly-dressed waitresses.

They were eventually demolished following accidents, but one has since been re-erected in an adjacent field.

The fountain of 1880 commemorating the centenary of the Bath and West Show remains, but only just.

Steam power had been introduced into the RNLI in 1890 with the building of the 'Duke of Northumberland', but only five further examples were completed.

The V Richardson shop is still a shop, but the next but one beyond, dated 1886, is now a house, the Old Bakery. On the right are the flint walls to the grounds of the Manor House.

In the old days the interior of this church was strewn with pea straw, but one year it caught fire and the interior was considerably damaged. The tradition was immediately terminated!

Apart from the old post office, much of the left-hand side survives, but on the right only The William Hardwicke pub remains amid rebuilding, including the 1930s Bobby's department store, after which the

A huge budget of £50,000 was provided for the building, but only half was used, and it was never completed. It opened as an aquarium in 1883, but this was also unsuccessful; today it is a cinema.

This scene nowadays would be dominated by the A55 Expressway, but only a little over a hundred years ago many of the buildings in this photograph would only have recently been erected, built

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

has a puzzling 18th-century monument inside, which reads 'Underneath the corruptible parts of a vicar, one husband, two helpmeets, both wives and both Anns, a triplicity of persons in two twains but one

The terrace at the left survives but on the right all beyond the 1880s bank (now Atkinson and Keene estate agents) has been demolished, as far along as the parapeted building.

He tells of the bedlam at Molesey, where 'you could not see any water at all, but only a brilliant tangle of bright blazers, and gay caps, and saucy hats, and many-coloured parasols, … and streaming ribbons

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

Next but one was Smith the chemist's - the projecting sign is now removed. F C Webb's shoe shop was seventh along, and above it was a hairdresser's.

Note the cross-shaped ends to the tie-bars which help prevent the walls from bowing out on the house next to the telegraph pole, and on the next but one along.

Few of the late 18th- and early 19th-century visitors to the county passed through Lampeter, but one visitor who walked from Carmarthen to Chester stayed a weekend in the town in 1836.

But one pauper, Jeppe Knave, who was found murdered, could not find room in the graveyard: no person or authority would pay for his burial.

In the 19th century many were Nonconformists, such as Quakers, and next but one to the hardware shop can be seen the entrance, now demolished, of a Nonconformist mission hall.

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that Robin came here to hire boats in order to escape from England.

Other changes are that Mason's (left) is now Clarks, Radio House (next door but one) is now Dixon's, and Woolworth's have totally replaced the buildings beyond, the Red Lion (there is a commemorative plaque

Time stands still in this peaceful view of the village; but on 12 March 1470, the Battle of Loscote Field, one of many during the Wars of the Roses, was fought in the parish.

Stone for the building was cut on site by machinery brought to the estate by way of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. The timber came from the Haigh and from Crawford's estates in Jamaica.