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P H Fisher's Notes and Recollections of Stroud states that 'to the ground floor of the Market House butter women and dealers in poultry, fruit and vegetables from the country formerly resorted on market

Its owes its name to a legend about a subterranean passage linking it with the monastery that stood on the site of Prideaux Place, the castellated mansion of the Lord of the Manor.

Just a plain wooden bridge, but it was a bridge such as this upon which Edward Thomas stood in 1915 when for a few moments he imagined himself to linger between the past and the future, or between life

A cottage on the left was once home to the blacksmith; his forge stood beyond the pub.

Formerly Bennitts Hill, One Tree Hill was named after the large ash that stood here until the First World War (when it blew down in a gale).

Where the lock-keeper's cottage once stood is now an attractive recreational area with seats and information boards recording the history of the canal.

Madame Soul, right, is now the Stroud and Gloucester Building Society. Nichols and Bushell, premier grocers (next door), is now the Dandy Lion.

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

It once stood in Winnington Lane, near to the Victoria Hospital. The gateway through the iron railings on the right leads into the Verdin park, which lies just behind.

The old church stood by the trees.

The original inn that stood on this site dated from the 16th century, but it was dismantled in 1910 and the present inn built.

Rye once stood on the coast, but from the 15th century onwards silting of the harbour occurred, and Rye is now some two miles inland.

Boyce Hill took its name from a medieval land-owning family: their farm stood where the clubhouse now is. Benfleet's wooded hills once provided vital material for fuel and boat-building.

It is sited where the market cross once stood. The lane behind the memorial leads to Sawston Hall.

The chapel of St Thomas once stood on Holywell Street, but even in the 1830s it was little more than a ruin, much of its stone having been taken for other buildings.

It stood at the crossroads of the footpath which led from Verulanium (St Albans) via Wheathampstead to Hitchin, once travelled by the Roman legions, mediaeval pilgrims, and by the fugitive King Charles

It stood on the corner of Station Road and St Mildred's Road, known by older villagers as Vicarage Lane.

Originally known as the Sherborne, or Imperial Promenade, Cheltenham's fashionable thoroughfare began its existence as a walkway from the High Street to a spa pump room that stood where the Queen's Hotel

The sign on the building to the right forefront of the photo advertises Stroud's Agency for Servants; it is now a fashion accessory shop.

Its most famous son was the author and poet Laurie Lee, who was born in Stroud in 1914 and moved to Slad when he was three, and recalled his childhood in Cider With Rosie.

St Peter's Gate (demolished in 1770) stood a few yards further down the hill, near the end of Rutland Terrace.

Few who saw the film version of the latter will forget the scene where the enigmatic heroine, played by Meryl Streep, stood braving a storm at the end of the Cobb—Lyme's harbour wall.

Although it had decamped to Broomfield Road by the time this picture was taken, the Grammar School had formerly stood here - the entrance to the old buildings being just to the left of