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Looking back down towards the market square in the distance, this view shows the old High Street prior to the 1980s modernisation.

At the end of the street is the great medieval hall house, Emplins. Above the chimney pots we can see the small lead spire of the parish church.

Situated in Church Street, St Mary's Church was originally built during the 13th century. It was enlarged in the 14th century, and its impressive narrow spire was added in the 15th century.

The junction of High Street and School Hill is still recognisable, though the shop on the left-hand corner is now an estate agents and the building is tile-hung.

A delivery van is parked outside the grocer's shop in the Main Street of the small cul-de-sac village of Haverigg.

An empty village street in Silecroft, a small settlement at the foot of Black Combe, at 1,970ft the southernmost of the major Lake District hills and a fine viewpoint across the Irish Sea.

Looking along George Street from Market Square, the timber-framed building and Ellis's were replaced in 1910 in Jacobean style by Market Chambers and a bank.

The road off to the right is St Peter's Street.

Union Street is now pedestrianised; this view shows some of the modern shop fronts installed by 1955 which replaced the much better Victorian ones.

It is some sixty years after photograph No 37307, and while the fabric, and indeed usage, of the buildings remains pretty much the same, gas lamps have given way to electric street lights and power lines

Wivey's main street was by-passed in 1980. The Lion, the town's main hotel, became a church, and Baigent's the draper's next door a restaurant.

Boundary Street was still a rough road when these flats were new. Today the flats` distinctive roofline has been renewed; the approach road is metalled now, and there are houses to the left.

From further up Bear Street we see what was demolished to allow the new road through. Beyond the bow windows is now mechanised mayhem.

Already falling into disrepair in Victorian times, thatched cottages on the east side of South Street, beside South Bridge, would soon succumb to the front-line of urbanisation.

There were, however, many unofficial operators,who ‘infested the streets and annoyed the passenger’.

In July 1889 Walter Davies, manager of a pawnshop in Market Street, was found dying from a stab wound to his neck.

This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.

The mostly 15th-century church of St Nicholas rises above the narrow street of stone cottages.

The street looks very different nowadays, with the hustle and bustle of visitors sightseeing and shopping.

Here we see the broad sweep of the garden city's main street looking west, with a wide assortment of businesses lining the wide tree-lined pavements.

This view looks towards Matlock bridge, and tells of a time when local straw-hatted local people could stand in the middle of the street to have a leisurely conservation.

Part of Church Street was destroyed in an air raid in 1941, but misguided development and unrestricted traffic growth have since done far more damage to the townscape than German bombs.

Fore Street, leading into the A350 Trowbridge Road, is now a very busy road in and out of town.

In the distance, glimpsed on the right on the corner of King Street, is the former forge, now a private house. Opposite, the Oast Garage opened in the mid 1950s.