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All on the left has been rebuilt; the Boulevard, part of the new town's shopping streets, took out most of the right-hand houses.

The houses along this stretch of the esplanade were all to be destroyed during World War Two, and then replaced by modern flats.

One of Dublin's most famous buildings is the Custom House. It was designed by Gandon and built between 1781-1791.

Sir Walter Raleigh was found guilty of treason in the old Market House at Staines, which has since been demolished. A plague had prevented the Court from holding the trial in London.

All these houses have now gone, to be replaced by blocks of flats.

This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.

Some of the houses on the left are boarded up and empty in this photograph, but when they were for sale in August 1920 they were described as 'a Block of Four Capital Cottages'.

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

The scene has hardly changed at all, except that there are now more houses beyond the road. Like so many villages locally, the population has grown considerably in the last few years.

Today the building houses the town's comprehensive public library. Ossett's GNR railway station was open until 1964.

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

A line of genteel houses is now an indifferent row of shops.

Built in 1902, it housed their store, as well as a billiards room, a reading room, and a concert hall.

The statue was made by Doulton Potteries and remained on this site until the early 1930s when it was removed to the grounds of Greenham House, and then later moved to Victoria Park.

One of the few thatched buildings in the area, the Duke's Head is no longer a public house.

Behind the bird house on the left is a wonderful great barn with a sweeping roof of Kerridge stone slabs.

In the centre is Clyde House, once the post office, which along with the village store is now to be found in the converted sandstone barn on the left.

The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.

This very substantial bargate stone building - five storeys and a basement - was originally a private house, but became a prep school known as Silvesters, the headmaster's name.

Only a mile from a pleasant and unspoilt beach, the area attracted holiday- makers, and the occupiers of Townsend House helped satisfy their needs by offering meals and accommodation.

The houses on the right existed until the 1960s, but were in use as commercial establishments by that time.

Further east, 18th-century Mansfield House on the right with its two canted bay windows and pedimented doorcase is the best building, while the one with three dormers beyond is now a county branch library

By the end of the 18th century, the western half of the High Street contained about fifteen houses, which by 1842 had increased to about twenty-five. Several of these still survive.

Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.