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

At the east end of Spilman Street is St Peter's Church, an old building on the highest ground in the older portion of the town. Little is known about this church, including the date of its erection.

Neatly-kept stone and timber-framed cottages punctuate the lane that is the main street. This area is described as a walkers' paradise; one of the many footpaths is signposted behind the school sign.

Of the two public houses shown here on the wide main street leading up to St Andrew's church, only the Fountain (centre right), originally known as the Crown and rebuilt after a fire in 1900, is still

This photograph shows the wide expanse of Westgate, a street typical of the old market towns in the area: there was room for animals being driven to market, market stalls, and all the people who came into

However, popular history associates these Tudor cottages on the corner of Eldon Street with Cromwell's visit to Warrington in 1648 whilst pursuing the Scottish army.

This is the lower end of the High Street, with the Long Shop complex off to the right and Victoria Road to the left.

There is no such thing as an ordinary street in this town. True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares.

The Bronte industry, founded in this pretty, cobble-streeted West Yorkshire town after the famous literary family made the Parsonage their home in 1820, was already well under way, if this 1950s photograph

The street is dominated by the Italianate clock tower, paid for by Joseph Pease; along with the Town Hall and covered market, it was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and built in 1864.

The narrow High Street, with its branch of the National Provincial Bank (later to become the National Westminster Bank) on the right, and the local Post Office, shoe-shop, and newsagents on the left, was

In the 1790s the Kennet and Avon Canal swept past at first floor window level of the 17th-century George Inn to cut it off from the High Street.

Closer in to the centre of the city, this view from the roof of the Abbey looks north along the High Street with the domed Georgian Guildhall on the right.

The end of the street opens out into the village square, complete with pump and clock, and overlooked (though not in this picture) by the church.

This is a low-angle shot up Church Street from beneath the horse chestnut trees in the churchyard (right) to the thatched Crown Inn (centre).

A Panorama south-eastwards across Allington hamlet and West Allington street to the Rope Works, St Michael`s Works and Priors Mills (middle distance, left).

Newbiggen (`new building`) Street sprang up in response to the town`s medieval prosperity. It was once called `Vikerestrete`.

It is mostly a residential street, illuminated by gas lamps at this date; but there is a group of shops on the right.

As the High Street runs down toward the medieval town wall gate and through to the harbour, the influence of Robert Wynn's Plas Mawr can be seen in the transomed stone mullions of the Castle

A young mother ambles down the middle of the street behind a pram, while a policeman converses with a passer-by.

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.

Further down the street we can see the distinctive sign of the Bear Inn.

The A29 that runs in a straight line through the village follows the course of the Roman Stane Street.

The traders' stalls can be seen on the Market Place, and there is far more activity in the surrounding streets.