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By the time of this photograph Cromer had experienced a continuing building boom, which included new premises for fashionable stores such as Jarrold & Sons (left), who are still flourishing both in Cromer

The Royal Exchange dominates Exchange Street, which starts where the square becomes narrower.

Since 1838 Fleetwood had had a theatrical pavilion in Dock Street, and a daily conveyance at Poulton met the Fylde Union coach to and from Fleetwood's new bathing station, but it did not have a pier.

despite vociferous local opposition, struck a deal to sell the site to their preferred developers, the property group Dawnay Day, who own most of the shops and flats on the south side of King Street

The Redgrave Road area of Vange did have a few pre-New Town shops near the Bull public house in Bull Road, and were reasonably near other old shops, which were mainly on the A13 road at Vange and Pitsea

Arthur Vernon, Architect and Mayor The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe's new class of industrialists and professionals.

despite vociferous local opposition, struck a deal to sell the site to their preferred developers, the property group Dawnay Day, who own most of the shops and flats on the south side of King Street

As the population of Fareham increased during the 1820s and 1830s, there was a need for more schools, another church, a new workhouse, and a library and lecture hall.

Towards the end of the 19th century it was decided that the town needed a town hall commensurate with its new affluent status.

Liptons the grocer's (left), a café from 1910 to the 1920s, is now Dixon's. Beside Liptons, the Pearl Assurance sign hides that of the Kings Head.

In the terms of his will, however, he left instructions that his estate - which now consisted of Moulsham and Chelmsford - should remain in one piece as it passed to his successive male heirs.

Reference has already been made to the rapid expansion of Sheffield's east end - Brightside, Attercliffe and Darnall - to accommodate the tens of thousands of new workers in the heavy steel industry

A new estate of large houses was begun on the site in 1932, but it was not completed until after the Second World War.

Howard then went on to design the Broadway shops and the cinema (later renamed the Century, but now Gala Bingo) on the southern side of the High Street.

The village population had grown to just short of 700, and there were now over 100 houses. The way of life had remained basically agricultural.

The priory's last vestige, the gatehouse on the west side of Moulsham Street, was demolished in 1857. The pathway leading through it had solidified into the road known as Friars Place.

The village population had grown to just short of 700, and there were now over 100 houses. The way of life had remained basically agricultural.

King Street was widened in 1928 when the old Town Hall was demolished.

Both Back Lane and the High Street were well supplied with inns: the Blue Bell, the White Hart, the Talbot, the Three Arrows, the Dolphin, the Rose.

the meeting, with handshakes all round, John Barnes, the young engineer, had secured agreement from all the local worthies - and finance from the Marquis of Buckingham himself - to build the new

The town also acquired that other symbol of Georgian respectability and status: Assembly Rooms, in Bell Street.

Men and women who wished to be hired stood in line at the top of the High Street dressed in their smocks and carrying the emblems of their trade.

Woodmansterne Station, situated in Coulsdon, did not arrive until 1932 and, although some distance from the old village, it was an impor- tant factor in the development of new roads off Rectory

Few streets still follow their original medieval plans, though not all have been lost since 1945. Butcher Row went long ago.