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Good's Stores, bakery, Post Office and café was fire-damaged in the 1970s.The site has now been redeveloped for housing.The Blue Idol is a Quaker Friends Meeting House and guesthouse which was converted

The nearby Sheffield Park estate built the modern mock half-timbered houses seen at the far end of the street.

We are looking north along the High Street, with the school of 1849 on the far right, converted to a house in 1969.

The view looks at St Mary's from the north, along a varied terrace of possibly late 18th- and 19th- century houses which are not enhanced by the long brick boundary wall.

It is distinctive in that its porch, with its upper room and flanking round tower, would look more at home on a fortified manor house.

Down Commercial Street is the Market House, with a clock tower built by John Francis Basset in 1866. The Bassets of Tehidy were important mineral lords in this once-great copper and tin mining centre.

The town was very popular as a health resort in the mid-18th century, which resulted in many fine terraces of houses springing up. Children crowd the foreground.

This is Main Road, and it is full of local limestone-built houses. Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns.

Note that one of the cinemas, the Picture House, has given way to Fine Fare (centre right).

The buildings survive, but they were Tudorised and given leaded light windows and applied timber-framing: you could be forgiven for driving past and thinking it a 1920s period-style road house pub.

The nearby Sheffield Park estate built the modern mock half-timbered houses at the end of the street.

The challenge was met by new boarding houses, tall and each able to take in several families. They were built in rows.

The trees (right) obscure stucco-fronted houses dating from about 1840.

The whitewashed cottage is Craven Cottage and is little changed today, but 1960s housing has appeared where the tall trees previously grew on the right.

The shop under the blind (left) is no longer a shop, but the white house (centre) is still there. We may be glad that the ugly power line post has also gone.

The Tivoli Tavern can be seen to the left, but Albert Gait has been replaced by the Alliance and Leicester (the gabled building, centre left), and Citi Financial is installed in Pinbox House (centre).

Shugborough Hall, Lord Lichfield's house, is behind the trees to the left; the small building on the towing path is now a craft shop.

To the right of this picture can be seen houses in Archer's Road, part of the development of Newtown in c1910.

It looks in this view more like a dovecote, and was converted to a house in 1934. The miller's wagon poses proudly in front of the mill.

Beyond are 1880s houses, one with a shop window, now demolished.

The photograph looks south-east along the culverted stream bordering Station Road, with housing of the 1920s and 30s on the extreme right.

Along the Tring Road, the late 19th century saw the arrival of factories and the cemetery seen in earlier views, and also housing developments such as the Edwardian Queen's Park or the 1890s Victoria Park

A public bath house was also part of the block; as well as serving the people of the back streets around Piccadilly, it meant that patients could be given a bath before entering hospital.

The next morning as he prepared to depart, Lady Ingilby made it perfectly plain that had Cromwell not behaved peaceably he would not have been leaving the house alive.