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Alford is a most attractive small market town on the eastern edge of The Wolds, noted for its thatched Manor House in West Street, a 16th-century hall house with crosswings, all encased in brick in 1661

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

The 17th-century Bull pub (centre left) is still there, as is the Town Hall, but two banks now stand along that side of the street.

Here we see unsaddled horses being led down the street. Could they be going to a Tattersalls sale?

Though the old man could be delivering milk, yokes were also used for carrying all manner of things up the steep streets.

On the other side of the street is the Hitchin Dairy, and the draper nearest the camera is Hawkins.

It has quaint streets, a promenade, cliffs and a harbour, together with a fine old church.

By the 1950s cars were already a problem on the streets of Lyme, because of the lack of parking spaces. Present-day Lyme bans traffic from the sea front.

The colonnaded street behind, part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act scheme, is an elegant piece of Georgian town planning.

Facing the churchyard on the north side of Church Street is the oldest building in the King's School, built just before 1528 as a chantry school.

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

The Star in the High Street, built in the early 16th century, was a hostelry and resting place for abbots and monks from surrounding priories and manors and also for pilgrims.

When this photograph was taken, the four-story building facing the camera with three gabled windows in the roof was The Royal George Hotel, which looked onto King Street Parade.

A young boy pushes a handcart towards the camera on this street running south towards the church of St Peter, as two elegantly hatted ladies drive their pony and trap past a sunbathing dog on the pavement

Just further on across North Street, the new building is Newman's, the first supermarket- style shop to open in Daventry. It is now the offices of the Nationwide Building Society.

School House stands at the corner of Market Place and Market Street. The Hospital of Christ, built in 1398, stood on this site, which was once known as Baresplace. School House was erected in 1853.

The church-like building on the corner of Kettering Road (now Lower Street) has since been demolished, and a modern community centre stands on its site.

In the late 19th century this area of Norfolk Street offered such delights as Mrs Elizabeth Cockerill, china, glass and earthenware dealer, Plowright & Pratt (extreme right), ironmongers by

On the left we can see Barclay's Bank, on the corner of Cricklade Street. This building opened as the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank in 1885 and is now used as offices and as a hairdresser's salon.

Horse-drawn vehicles dominate the street scene as a coach and four with at least 10 passengers approaches.

Just off the main street in North Road is the Methodist church. Some of the village shops were built from corrugated iron before modernisation in the early 1960s.

Bridge Street curves down to the river. A variety of architecture is to be enjoyed here, from red brick houses to timber-framed cottages.

Hope Cottage near the church is dated 1888, and at No 16 Church Street a tall tree has replaced what looks like a broken-off post (right).

The buildings on the corner of Church Street were owned by Hayward & Sons, who traded from the adjacent shop (right). In the distance is Ashford House, the former King's Head Inn.