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Presiding over the town's broad High Street is the 120 feet high, pinnacle-topped tower of St James', which dates from the 15th century.

Two motor cars are visible, but few street markings and signs, apart from the one on the right by the bow-windowed shop in the stone-built terrace.

On the left in the distance are the offices of the Provincial Insurance Company and closing the end of the street is the Majestic, where the people of Leeds could enjoy dancing.

This view looks along the High Street from the Vicarage Road junction, now a mini-roundabout.

A little north of the High Street Junction, off Abingdon Road, is Gravel Lane, which has a number of farm buildings on each side at its west end.

Just on the left along Bridge Street was a borehole testing for the coal seam, and it is not surprising that when the lift shaft was being dug for the Argos store on the higher corner that coal should

Swain Street runs south from the harbour; it is narrow and mixed architecturally, as can be seen in this Edwardian view.

This proved inadequate and in 1869 G E Street buttressed and raised the tower, added a spire and rebuilt the rest of the church we see now.

The main road which neatly divides the two Kibworths was not put in until 1810, having previously followed the rather tortuous line of the main village street.

The flower beds are a riot of colour in high summer; they lie alongside the stream that runs through the main street. Trees and St Helen's church make a splendid backdrop.

This is the follow-on view from photograph D69002, looking north along the A5 - the Watling Street.

This wide, curving street set on a sandy ridge runs downhill to the 16th-century White Hart Inn.

A lone policeman in his high-buttoned tunic directs traffic emerging from the Ewell Road to cross the junction with Station Way, The Broadway and the High Street.

In Slaidburn's Church Street there is a plaque stating that the school there was endowed and erected by John Brennand, a much-respected benefactor, who died in 1717.

The Working Men's Club is now at The Lodge, Welton Road, just out of sight to the left down Abbey Street.

This traffic island at the south end of the High Street, with its random stone walling, double yellow lines, and Festival of Britain-style sign, somehow epitomises a rather unlovely village.

Parking problems did not exist here in these days in the High Street.

Redevelopment in the 1970s has swept away many of the buildings on the west side of Crib Street.

The lines of parked vehicles on both sides of the road tend to detract from the architectural riches of the fine Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings that adorn this spacious street; they are evidence

The Rectory in South Street, on the south side of St Mary's Parish Church, was the home of the Rural Dean, Rev Henry Richard William Farrer, who was an honorary canon of Salisbury Cathedral.

This is the south side of West Street, from the north-east. W Frost, bookseller and publisher of the ' Bridport News', was next door to the Sun Hotel, where the landlord was William Kingman.

The nearby Sheffield Park estate built the modern mock half-timbered houses seen at the far end of the street.

In the far distance is the line of the High Street.

We are looking north from the roundabout, and the Catholic church is just visible in the distance at the end of James Street.