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Looking towards Bull Head Street, a mixture of building periods come together to provide a pleasant moment in Wigston.

To the west of the town centre, and parallel with Chase side, this picturesque street has to be seen by any visitor to Enfield.

North from the Market Place, the High Street curves away past The Woolpack, now rendered and roughcast.

The Old Bank building, which stood at the junction of Chertsey Road, High Street and Broadway, failed to survive the post Second World War swathe of redevelopment which saw many of the town's Victorian

The renowned actor Seymour Hicks, and his wife Ellaline Terriss, were living in the 15th-century Old Forge House by the gates at the time when they were appearing in the play Quality Street during the

East and south of the church, the High Street has a number of good houses, including the 18th-century Elm Farmhouse in the distance.

Further up the High Street, the whitewashed cottage on the right is called Kinver Edge.

Looking west along the High Street, we see on the right the Dog and Gun, a Phipps public house, now closed and converted to a private house.

We can see the signboard for the new Fountain public house on the left beside the street lamp, but the pub is set back out of sight. The major roundabout is visible at the end of the road.

A train belonging to the North Eastern Railway is about to ease out onto the great viaduct, built by Robert Stephenson in 1857, that carries the line 100 ft above the streets of Durham.

The pretty village of Elham, at the heart of the valley of that name, is clustered around its market square and this High Street, lined with buildings from several periods.

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

Beeson's, on the left, is still flourishing in 1903 but was rebuit in the 1990s in approximate facsimile as offices named Talbot House, re-using the 'Talbot Road 1863' stone plaque street name.

The right-hand side has double- depth offices along Patford Street, which once housed the police station.

Village life is captured in the streets of the village - the Literary Institute (1877) still stands, now the post office and village hall.

At the south end of Cheap Street, seen on the right, were the premises of H R Hughes; the building has a narrow three-sided front and a stone-tiled roof, also with three planes.

It is nostalgic to see the cars parked in the street - the Morris Minor and mini- vans for example - and no yellow lines and no parking meters. Those were halcyon days.

The pond, which is basically circular, is situated at the southern end of the High Street, with the Common beyond.

The King's Head in The Street in Capel, a village now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road, is now a private house, and its once sterile car park is now an attractive front garden

Standing opposite the start of the churchyard, Frith's photographer looks back along the High Street to the Vicarage Road junction and the A319 main Bagshot to Chertsey road.

West of the crossroads, Church Street runs north from Frilford Road, behind the camera, to the church, glimpsed to the left of the big tree at the far end.

This view is at the village crossroads, looking across the main A415 Frilford Road from Mill Road into North Street.

Unlike most photographs of King Street, this view is virtually unchanged.

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.