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The Cornish Arms on the left has got a new sign on a post by the roadside, the monkey puzzle has been felled, and there is now a tangle of overhead electric wires spreading out from their poles.

After crossing the Wye Bridge, our man from Frith captured plenty of activity and detail in this photograph of the main street.

Almost brand new at the time this photograph was taken, the first multi-storey car park of this size in the country opened on the site of Lee Street, the birthplace of Joseph Merrick, the tragic Elephant

A quarter of a century apart, this and the previous view of the High Street show how little it changed throughout the 20th century, with the exception of traffic problems and an increased number

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

We have moved nearer still to the bow-fronted building where the street narrows. The motor car has clearly ousted not only the horse but also, apparently, the bicycle.

There are few cars parked along the street, but in those days private car ownership amid working families was still something of a novelty.

Much of the older town has gone, but in and around the High Street there are still reminders of Crawley as it used to be.

The farmhouses and cottages all have steps down to the street because the old unmetalled road to Cambridge had been gradually lowered by use.

Chapel Street has changed drastically since this picture was captured. There are now traffic islands in the middle of the road.

This photograph gives us a good view of the new sea wall built as part of the widening of the Promenade.

The dated 1960s architecture of Oxford House opposite faces demolition - clearance of the Hayes/Bridge Street site is scheduled to make way for a vast new retail complex.

The medieval route from the Aldreth crossing to Ely went along the High Street. The view from the church tower is of brick farmhouses and brick cottages with picket fences.

As the town grew further away from the village and the parish church, a new Anglican place of worship was necessary.

At the time of this photograph, traffic was not excluded from this street. A delivery van stands beside the Olde Pork Pie Shoppe of Dickinson and Morris.

The south-west side of Ware High Street changed drastically when it was decided to build a new Tesco Store in 1960.

Along the street in the picture was a special bath house, as well as a number of new hotels and lodgings.

The three ugly new traffic signs and modern street lights are also a sign of the times.

Seen from its modern bypass on the A168 trunk road south of Thirsk, Topcliffe looks like a modern village of new housing estates.

19th-century Wesleyans were very much pro-establishment and named many new chapels 'Brunswick' after the German Duchy which was connected with the Hanoverians, from whom Victoria was descended.

Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

Until the construction of the A14 bypass, visitors to the town entered via he Old North Road through this narrow medieval bridge and into the busy High Street.

In the centre the long white building is the 16th-century Bridge End Inn, at the junction of New Road and Bridge Street.

The New Bear Hotel, left, is now Silver Street House, having been restored by Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust in 1977.