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A century on, the view of Church Hill in Marlborough Street is still easily recognisable, despite the two great complexes built on each side of the road, the Lloyds TSB Training Centre on the left and

Billingshurst is a Roman settlement on Stane Street. St Mary's church, built on a mound with access to the churchyard via a causeway, is shown in the photograph, and has Roman bricks in the walls.

On the right-hand side of the street stand flint-walled houses with brick dressings.

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

St Michael's House, the Victorian home of Mrs Brandham at No 7 Pound Street, became St Michael's Hotel.

Centre left is the combined police and fire station in Tower Street, referred to earlier. Note the six-storey tower.

Here we see the top of the High Street, which is little changed today.The porchway on the left belongs to the Moot Hall, which was the town hall until 1974 and is now open to the public.

The town was changing, and the old order was changing with it. 45 new residential roads were added to the street map in the 1920s.

Woolhall Street, beyond Everard's, marks the site of the medieval market Toll House and the later Wool Hall, which was demolished to create the street.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson was born here, and attended New Street Council School.

Visitors to the tourist attraction of Stockbridge enter downhill at either end of the High Street. Almost a mile long, it runs east-west, with narrow ribbons of houses on either side.

The awnings are out at the far end of the street to protect the stock in the shop windows from the summer sunshine, and in the foreground we can see frames for the awnings that have not been put up yet

Here, a little further north up High Street, we look west along Bedford Road. The late 19th-century town hall is on the left.

Going east from Market Place along Church Street, we reach the small square with the brown stone church on its north side, a curiously villagey one for a town.

The lane descends to Castle Street, from where this vies was taken; we see St Osyths, a good brick house of 1700 with earlier timber-framed ranges, and the farmhouse to the Prebendal.

In South Street, Shodfriars Hall is an echo of the four friaries established in the medieval town.

Gainsborough, an ancient market town, was also a busy river port; here we look up Silver Street, which led from the river wharves and warehouses to the market place.

The north side of High Street, on the right, has some dignified late 18th- and early 19th-century three-storey houses, including The Bell and The Chequers Hotels.

Townsend was an early name for this part of Kingswinford, which is at one end of the High Street, and thus the 'town's end'.

The double row of Street Cottages (right) is 17th-century; the further one is still three separate dwellings, and the nearer one was extended in the 1970s.

A herd of contented pigs rootle opposite the post office on the green which runs alongside a two-and-a-half mile stretch of the Romans' Stane Street.

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

Further down Northgate Street is The New Inn, still in business today and one of the best-preserved medieval galleried inns in the country.

Opposite and older are Oaklea (left) and the ecclesiastical window of Providence Place, with the Retreat along the street (centre).