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Keeping the pond topped up was never a problem - it was fed with surplus water from the swimming baths in Gladstone Street.

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

This view from the canal towpath looks north to the George Street bridge in Bathwick, with the backs of Sydney Buildings on the right.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

In the foreground is the then newly-laid-out area replacing the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, now all paved and occupied by the water fountain of 1839 relocated from Bath Street.

Here we glimpse the High Street through the arches of the Market Hall, which was built in 1627 at the expense of Sir Baptist Hicks.

Standing just beyond Hospital Street, and therefore originally outside the town, this building also survived the fire.

Imposing 19th-century buildings line one of Bury's main streets, which leads from the town's parish church, St Mary's.

Most of Alcester Street was demolished in the 1960s, but this small part of it survived.

Church Green West has become a street of building societies, with West Bromwich and Nationwide (in the former Hepworths Corner) at the other end.

The small green and village street can still be seen as depressions in the field beyond the churchyard where sheep and cows graze today.

They face the Railway Arms across the well-laid-out street. Note the caravan on the left beyond the 'torch of learning' school road sign.

The figure seated on the corner of Market Street is probably Charlie Lee, a well-known stallholder at the fish market opposite. Perhaps he is composing his latest daily poem wto amuse his customers.

The steep little street next to Jesse S Raddall (now a bistro called Three Steps to Heaven) is Angel Hill.

Like many premises in town, the frontage has changed at street level, but above the slates remain as they always did.

At the turn of the 20th century Princes Street boasted a number of hotels. The most expensive to stay at was the North British at Waverley Station.

This view shows the backs of buildings along Kempock Street. Kempock Place is just in view on the extreme left of the picture.

It is the oldest existing building on the High Street, the earliest part of it dating from around 1400. In its time it has been a farm, a carrier's business and an antique shop.

Stratford Road was first recorded in 1322, though it was just a trackway known as Shirley Street at that time. Shirley developed along it in linear fashion.

It is difficult to understand how such a structure could be allowed to replace decent Victorian shops, especially in a street where many of the buildings are listed, but it was probably a source

Here is Fen Street all rustic in summer, with a happy-faced lady smiling at the photographer. I doubt if she had many amenities in that little cottage.

How well ordered this street scene appears, with virtually no cars, only rumbling trams, and great six-wheeler buses.

With its cobbled main street, wide square and bustling market, Bedale sits astride a long, low hill on the edge of Wensleydale.

This very detailed photograph depicts one of Northampton's busiest streets.