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The stone half way down the other side of the road marked the entry to Mill Lane which led to Mill Street, the main entry road to the town for many centuries.

It was to this street, in 1793, that Joseph Storrs Fry moved his chocolate-making business. The business was founded by Joseph's father, who had come to Bristol from Wiltshire.

Wimborne Street c1955.

Along Thames Street, east of the town's medieval river bridge, abbey buildings remain. Note the gabled 13th-century chimney stack to The Chequer.

Biddenden is a classic Wealden village with an unspoilt main street, lined with a range of fine medieval and 17th-century buildings.

'Pooh Corner' is in the High Street and all the 'Enchanted Places' are in the parish. In the picture there are close-studded timber-framed houses on the left, including Sexton's shop.

This is a very attractive village, with a narrow street and thatched cottages. The lychgate stands at the entrance to the churchyard.

View from just into North Load Street. The railings have now gone, but the stone steps survive.

The forerunner of secondary modern schools and comprehensives, Waller Street School was established during the period when extended education beyond the age of 10 was unusual.

Gothic-style drinking fountain of 1860 has been relocated to the cemetery in South Road, presumably to save it from the traffic, while the good stone-tile-roofed building beyond on the corner of South Street is

The High Street looks quiet here; it usually seems much busier today. But a lot of that is just traffic passing through.

The National Provincial Bank (now NatWest) was built in 1931, when the High Street was widened (involving substantial demolition). Lloyd's Bank next door was built in 1932.

It had already been popular with wealthy city merchants for a century or so, and much housing development had taken place along the High Street.

This front towards King Street had shops on the ground floor, one of which was the Essex and Suffolk Fire Office. The building became a film theatre in 1973.

More evidence of Coronation flags and bunting is shown in this view of Wood Street, Wakefield, looking up towards the clock tower of the Town Hall, built in 1880 in the French Gothic style by T E Collcutt

Keeping the pond topped up was never a problem - it was fed with surplus water from the swimming baths in Gladstone Street.

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

This view from the canal towpath looks north to the George Street bridge in Bathwick, with the backs of Sydney Buildings on the right.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

In the foreground is the then newly-laid-out area replacing the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, now all paved and occupied by the water fountain of 1839 relocated from Bath Street.

Here we glimpse the High Street through the arches of the Market Hall, which was built in 1627 at the expense of Sir Baptist Hicks.

Standing just beyond Hospital Street, and therefore originally outside the town, this building also survived the fire.

Imposing 19th-century buildings line one of Bury's main streets, which leads from the town's parish church, St Mary's.

Most of Alcester Street was demolished in the 1960s, but this small part of it survived.