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This took in the UDCs of Egremont, New Brighton, Leasowe, Poulton, Moreton, Seacombe and Wallasey.

A few years earlier, one local commentator had written: 'the other side [of Earle Street] has been considerably improved with the growth of the local Co-operative Society.

There were already several schools in the town when the Minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Belfast advertised the arrival of a new academy.

The camera looks towards Hampstead High Street, formerly Red Lion Hill.

This photograph shows the open market in New Market Street. Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

alerted the new breed of holidaymaker to the charm of its steep, cobbled streets; by 1890 there were three hotels.

In 1451, Bishop Bekynton commissioned his 'New Works', which included the Dean's Eye, or Browne's Gate, built in 1453, which connected the cathedral precinct with the city.

School - was built by public subscription on Derby Street. That building, now Stokers' furniture store, was originally only one storey; in 1853 an upper floor was added at the cost of £1,007.

The Downs, like Horton and the common, were now part of London's Green Belt, and no further development would take place on them.

Part of the Trafalgar Square scheme included Pall Mall East, which was laid out to link it to Nash's Regent Street at Waterloo Place.

East of the church and the Moot Hall, a jettied timber-framed building of about 1500, standing in its green, is the main north-south village road, the High Street.

The street lighting by the chemist was a new innovation, only introduced in 1900 after the generating station opened in Commercial Road.

Local gentry applied for an Act of Parliament to allow them to build a new town and to develop the harbour, and work began in 1807, when the grid of broad, airy streets was laid out.

Some of the most notable developments of the new millennium have taken place at the Eynesbury end of the town.

Some blamed the slowness of firms in meeting the challenge, by not investing in new machinery or responding to new fashions.

the site of Corn Market House, where weekly markets were held for the sales of corn and straw plait, Market Hill underwent a major refurbishment in the 1860s, culminating in the joint opening of the new

Looking South The Co-op store on the left was previously a double-fronted residential property (today the windows are gone, and the shop has been taken into a new Co-op store which replaced

Until the mid 19th century, Abingdon grew little beyond its Tudor limits, but in the 1860s an estate of villas around a public park was set out to the north of Ock Street.

Historic association abound in this section of the main street. Ye

The North View Hotel was remodelled as the Midland, and became a firm favourite with the new visitors.

During the 1990s, River Terrace was demolished, and a new complex of houses and flats fills the area between the River and Brook Street.

Copthorne was a new parish, formed in 1881 out of Worth and Crawley Down.The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.The picture shows local shops with a proliferation

Opened in 1984, the new Lanes keeps frontages on English Street and Lowther Street and manages to retain something of the character of the old properties.

The new A55 road tunnel beneath the river diverts through-traffic from its streets. The quay is busy today with pleasure craft, rather than the commercial traffic of the past.