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This view looks south down Dunstable Street from Market Place; the Moot Hall is on the right with its slender iron-glazed casements.

Since the by-pass opened, the town has less traffic and the High Street has been paved with herring-bone paviours.

This captures a time when everyone shopped on his or her local high street, and out-of-town shopping was unheard of.

Flower girls were often orphans, boarding in rooms crowded with other street-sellers.

At the foot of King William Street is Wren's mighty fluted Doric column of Portland stone, erected to commemorate the Great Fire of London in 1666.

Church Street, in typical Sussex brick and flint, runs from the medieval church to The Lamb Inn.

Here we have another view of the High Street before pedestrianisation.

Alfriston's much loved High Street and two of its famous hostelries are little changed today.

In the past, this part of the street was packed with horses for the annual horse fair, Ffair Dalis, which was held in early May.

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change.

This narrow passage leading down to St Mary's Street was home in 1900 to a fishmonger and hairdresser, as well as the Hole in the Wall Inn, previously the Coach and Horses (although it is hard to imagine

To convey any notion at all of this watering-place to those who have never visited it, one must mention that there are noble tree-planted streets and shady avenues, an imposing sea-front of about three

Here the photographer looks east along High Street, a wide market place with typical market encroachment blocking the view at the end; the building with the gable is a rebuild in 1877 of a 17th-century

The marooned ornate street lamp would end its days painted with black and white bands and carrying signposts for London, Grantham, Leicester, Nottingham, Sleaford, Gainsborough and Lincoln.

Saron chapel stands alongside Market Street on the extreme right. The roof of the fire station can be seen in the foreground.

The shop front visible at the top of the High Street is the Chippenham Co-op Society.

The developers have struck in Castle Street.

Window displays include net curtaining, boots and shoes and hats.The shopfront and street corner have gas lamps, and the small front gardens have wood fencing.

Brasted Place was the seat iof the Tipping family, and once the retreat of the ousted monarch Louis Napoleon, who could be seen walking the streets with his tame eagle.

The shopfront and street corner have gas lamps, and the small front gardens have wood fencing. A boy waits near the shop doorway for the photographer.

This view looks north from the corner of Pier Street past the Queens Hotel, now painted to protect the rapidly- eroding stone work, towards the short pier; its pavilion-roofed structure is now named

A view of the southeast side of Bridge Street. While many of the buildings on the right remain, several were pulled down in the 1980s and their sites now form part of a supermarket car park.

Today, the pottery buildings are being restored by the Farnham Trust as craft workshops, and the West Street Potters, a teaching group, continues the tradition of making ceramics.

The iron fence and bushes in the foreground at the junction with Meathop Road have now gone, and the old street lamp at its end has been replaced by a modern one by the side of the road