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The old Crown Hotel is soon to close and be turned into another High Street shop.

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

Diverging from High Street at the junction with Station Road, Wellington Avenue led directly to the 'Cathedral Church of the British Army'.

We are looking from the west end of Market Hill into Friars Street.

The covered walkway in front was added in 1897, using the pillars from the old Corn Exchange which stood between the church and High Street.

The library survives, but it is cut off from High Street by the ring road. It was built in 1905 with the help of a £3,000 donation from the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

The bishop also set up schemes for the unemployed, paved the streets, built 50 cottages, endowed a boys' grammar school and financed extensions to the church.

With its jumble of streets and pleasing buildings of local moorstone, it has long been popular with visitors.

Bradleys, on the right of the street, is an interesting premises.

Bradleys, on the right of the street, is an interesting premises.

At the bottom of the street on the left, hidden in this view behind the Methodist Chapel, is the famous Blue Anchor Inn.

We have moved nearer the High Street junction.

This monument was formerly inaugurated in 1863, and stands at the end of Westgate Street in St Mary's Square.

Lads of all ages pose in groups for the camera in this traffic-free scene, with the turret clock at the lower end of the street.

On the left, with its porch projecting into the street, is the 14th- or 15th-century Chantry House, while just beyond, a striped barber`s pole overhanging the pavement indicates a gentlemen

Serious building work is in progress in this normally sedate street. On the extreme right an area has been cordoned off with barriers, and beyond are the towers of hoists and cranes.

This view looks north towards Oxford Street. Nash's handsome terraces were spurned by London's affluent classes, for stucco was considered common.

Thirty years prior to the building of the new Town Hall, Leicester was in a dreadful sanitary condition, with privies literally over-flowing into the streets, and it was not until the mid 1850s that piped

With its cobbled main street, wide square and bustling market, Bedale sits astride a long, low hill on the edge of Wensleydale.

Spanning the narrow street of this hill-top village, which rests high on the chalk uplands overlooking the River Nar, is this monumental arch, ancient gateway to the castle, which lies ruinous close by

As the High Street disappears in the dis- tance it becomes the Monmouth Road.

To the right, the tall gabled building of 1915 is still occupied by WH Smith, but there have been some losses on the left side of the street, which is now partly pedestrianised.

Originally the village extended no further than Back Lane, Coldstream Lane, the High Street and the houses in the vicinity of the green, which we see in this photograph.

Sheaf Street did not survive modernisation and the buildings on the right, as far as the Dutch blind over the shop window, were swept away for the modern Foundry Walk shopping arcade.