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Lumley Avenue, with its chestnut trees and wide verges and roadway, is typical of the streets comprising the original grid layout of the Earl of Scarbrough's 1870s town plan.

Across the road James Barlow, 'family grocer and provision merchant,' had the biggest food shop in the town; from the open doorway an appetising smell of ground coffee drifted into the street.

One of the oldest surviving fragments in the town, this 12th-century arch now forms the entrance to St Mary's Passage, a narrow path running down towards the meadows.

Dale Street is one of Liverpool's original seven streets, and is captured here full of hustle and bustle.

Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli's busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End).

By the end of the 19th century, New Street was both the principal business street in the town and the best for shopping and entertainment.This view is from Paradise Street.

We are looking north from the roundabout, and the Catholic church is just visible in the distance at the end of James Street.

We are looking north towards Kemple End.

By 1905 a spurt of building would fill in the right-hand side all of the way into town.

A street cleaner works below the church wall, while a boy seems interested in William Box's grocery, wine and spirit shop; two ladies approach Russell and Co's drapery shop next door.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel.

We look north-eastwards, above the gable-end of the Bay Private Hotel (centre right), to the Spittles and Black Ven.

The Carfax 1907 The Carfax and market place is at the heart of the old town.

What a scene this is, with bathers in the water, and gentlemen sitting on benches putting the world to rights.

There are 18th- and 19th-century houses, and a fine group of public buildings comprising the Town Hall of 1900, the Public Library of 1929, the Fire Station of 1911 and, at the junction with Church End

This view shows the west end of the Market Square.

Further east along The Embankment, Newnham Bridge crosses the north branch of the River Ouse at the south end of Tennyson Road.

This view shows the west end of the Market Square.

This building stands at the northern end of The Parade; it was built in 1926 on the site of a former coaching inn, the Pengwern Arms, which had to be demolished in 1885 following storm damage.

The town was known as 'Wycumbe' in the 12th and 13th centuries, and by the 14th century it was known as Chepping Wycombe to distinguish it from West Wycombe - 'chepping' means 'market'.

With St Mary's Church in the distance, Church Street is typical of a market town by-way in the early 1950s.

The castle, re-built in stone from 1189 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, keeps a broody watch on the town - as it has always done.

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

A ride called the 'Galloping Pigs' once appeared in the Cattle Market, perhaps emphasising the link with a market town.