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The first shop was in a house in South Street, and then new premises were found in Swan Street, to the left of the island site. As business grew, it moved in 1875 to this site in Bocking End.

Tomlinson's Stores is now the premises of Age Concern, and Goss Bros is now a tea shop.

Comparing these views gives an inkling of the decline that was to befall the street in later years.

This was one of the principal shopping streets of the town, though the Methodist New Connection chapel and the Salvation Army Hall were also along here.

The majority of the buildings on the right are still standing, but many on the left have gone to make way for new stores.

Hare Street existed long before the creation of the garden suburb of Gidea Park but has now all but lost its separate identity.

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

The Horse and Groom together with the next two buildings made way for a road; the Queens Head inn now occupies a corner of the new road - Queen Street.

Brimington is one of a number of similar former coal mining villages to the east of Chesterfield, and today villages like this are seeking a new identity.

By 1740 the original premises were very dilapidated; the Manor House at the south end of High Street was purchased for £1,000 to provide a new Master's House.

The gardens, the railway line and Princes Street occupy the area once covered by the waters of Nor' Loch.

Taken on the old Caversham bridge, this view looks into Caversham's Bridge Street with on the left the double gabled Taylor's Hotel of 1891; by 1908 it had been renamed the Thames Valley Hotel.

The origins of this rambling building, which overlooks the main street, lie in a 15th-century farmhouse, and until the New Inn was built in the 1640s, it also served the village as its ale-house.

In this view the northern wing, which turns the corner into Bridge Street, is still virtually brand new.

Pretty cottages with iron latticed windows compliment thatches old and new all along the main street.

Paternoster Row, on the right, was once a fashionable shopping street patronised by Pepys and his wife.

Castle Street runs north from the town centre. Two boys are using the drainage dyke to sail their toy yacht. The town was once a significant cloth-producing centre, renowned for its kersey.

In this view from the High Street, a man sits under the awning outside the Rainham and District Co-operative Society shop, opposite the wine merchant's shop of J Owen Carter.

Its predecessor was St Edith's - a house of Ursuline Sisters at the southern end of the High Street. They celebrated Mass there from 1910 until they left the town three years later.

The first shop was in a house in South Street, and then new premises were found in Swan Street, to the left of the island site. As business grew, it moved in 1875 to this site in Bocking End.

In the centre the long white building is the 16th-century Bridge End Inn, at the junc- tion of New Road and Bridge Street.

The earlier Corn Exchange on Cornhill was demolished in 1880 for the new post office. The replacement was built in 1882 in a mixture of Italianate styles, with French pavilions on the roof.

A lady in traditional dress poses with her pannier donkey in Higher Market Street, East Looe, outside the old 16th-century guildhall.

The external view shows the war memorial, which now has the inevitable extension beneath it to include those who died in the Second World War.