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By 1905 a spurt of building would fill in the right-hand side all of the way into town.

A street cleaner works below the church wall, while a boy seems interested in William Box's grocery, wine and spirit shop; two ladies approach Russell and Co's drapery shop next door.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

We look north-eastwards, above the gable-end of the Bay Private Hotel (centre right), to the Spittles and Black Ven. Beyond are Charmouth and Stonebarrow Hill (top right).

There are 18th- and 19th-century houses, and a fine group of public buildings comprising the Town Hall of 1900, the Public Library of 1929, the Fire Station of 1911 and, at the junction with Church End

This view shows the west end of the Market Square. Several routes enter town, but none disturb this pretty square. A couple , probably visitors, admire the old market cross.

Further east along The Embankment, Newnham Bridge crosses the north branch of the River Ouse at the south end of Tennyson Road. We are looking east from the north bank.

This view shows the west end of the Market Square. Several routes enter town, but none disturb this pretty square. A couple , probably visitors, admire the old market cross.

This building stands at the northern end of The Parade; it was built in 1926 on the site of a former coaching inn, the Pengwern Arms, which had to be demolished in 1885 following storm damage.

The Carfax 1907 The Carfax and market place is at the heart of the old town.

What a scene this is, with bathers in the water, and gentlemen sitting on benches putting the world to rights. Tourists are ordering tickets for the twice-nightly end-of-the-pier show.

The town was known as 'Wycumbe' in the 12th and 13th centuries, and by the 14th century it was known as Chepping Wycombe to distinguish it from West Wycombe - 'chepping' means 'market'.

With St Mary's Church in the distance, Church Street is typical of a market town by-way in the early 1950s.

The castle, re-built in stone from 1189 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, keeps a broody watch on the town - as it has always done. Henry Tudor, the future King Henry VII, was born here in 1457.

Towards the end of the 19th century it was decided that the town needed a town hall commensurate with its new affluent status.

A ride called the 'Galloping Pigs' once appeared in the Cattle Market, perhaps emphasising the link with a market town. There has been a fair in Loughborough for nearly 800 years.

St Neots and Eaton Socon, and wounded soldiers were often in evidence around the town. The war years provided local women here, as elsewhere, with new opportunities.

Many retailers with shops elsewhere in the town would also have a stall on market day.

This is a quiet town on the south bank of the River Stour, at the point where it begins to widen into the estuary.

The last two views in Hailsham itself are of a timber-framed cottage on Hempstead Lane, once in the countryside but now firmly within the town's 20th-century expansion - this sweeps past the lane

The east end part of the quay faces northwards with views across the flat marshes to the sea beyond.

The regeneration of the south side of Dudley town centre began in 1962. First to be completed was a pedestrian way linking Castle Street with the bus station.

The two-mile-long parade overlooks the sandy beach; at the west end an extensive area was laid out as winter gardens.

Today it is the centrepiece of the town's Flagpole Memorial, opened in 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.