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Cocks House, in the distance at the junction with Back Street, is unchanged.

The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine - or monkey-puzzle tree - grows in a garden further down the hill. The roadway is of stone; motor transport has not yet arrived.

Instead of a theatre, this pavilion housed amusement machines and a fun fair.

The church was later replaced by the skyscraping Cater House.

The brick building on the other side of the road was the school, which had been in the adjacent white house until 1851. Benjamin Horth, the then headmaster, was also the village postman.

Here we see a quiet road, with rather neglected grass verges outside the houses. In the background, on the right of the picture, is the spire of the church of St Mary the Virgin.

This view looks downstream from the riverside garden of Waterside House towards Whitchurch Bridge.

It formerly powered a watermill with the Mill House on the right and its mill-leet to its left.

It is one of the most changed areas of the town, with nearly all these houses demolished in 1964 as part of a slum clearance programme that was resisted by many local people.

The fine house has been a school and a furniture shop, and is now a solicitors' offices. On the corner next door is the public library, which was built in 1889 in part of the garden.

This photograph encapsulates farming old-style, with hens running free in the yard by the house.

When Charles I moved with his court to York, the royal printing press was housed here. Over the years, many owners and many changes of use left the building in a ramshackle state.

The best house in the street is No 22 on the left, which is Georgian and dated 1763.

Only seven houses escaped damage, thousands were destroyed or damaged beyond repair and many were hit more than once.

Bailey's Hotel was the first to accommodate visitors to Blackpool, along with Bennett's and Yorkshire House. The scene is Central Beach. J Wolfe and R Penswick were the bathing machine proprietors.

It is surrounded by many important houses, some owned by the most wealthy merchants and families.

The fine modern houses are a world away from the ancient stocks outside Broughton churchyard, 18th-century Toll Bar Cottage, Pinfold Cottage or the smithy where the Mercer family used to shoe horses.

The buildig on the right is part of the White Horse public house, with the cottages of Clementina Carpenter, a tobacconist, and John Fosbury, a boot and shoe maker.

The house on the corner, known as The Beeches, was advertised for auction in 1920.

For example, in this photograph the private houses on the far right have now been converted into shops, and the hedges have been removed to give easy access.

The Market House was built in 1655; it is a substantial building supported on fat stone columns. Originally it would have been more striking, but the third storey was removed in 1817.

There is, of course, another Wheatsheaf further along the road; it had once been a pair of cottages, but they were converted to a beer house in the 1880s.

On the opposite side of the road a parade of shops has replaced the undertaker`s and surrounding houses. The village school beyond has given way to Waitrose.

It is now called Mountbatten House after Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was president of the Royal Life Saving Society, which moved its headquarters here in 1980.