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In the High Street there are a few parked cars, but no pedestrians, apart from the two women and a child in the doorway on the right.

This is the College Yard side of the gate, looking through to the High Street and Northgate (formerly Pump Lane).

Edmund Davis, who lived in Sowell Street, St Peter's, bought the building; he added a concert hall and baths and landscaped Victoria Gardens.

Church Street was always liable to flooding, and in March 1947 the water flowed into the lower floor of the Feathers (right).

In this photograph the main road looks quiet, but traffic between Leicester and Loughborough would, in a few short years, build to a crescendo through the narrow streets.

At the top of the street stands an elegant 18th-century building housing the police station; on the near left, an outfitter's shop displays lengths of cloth.

We are at the top of the street seen in photograph No 71178. The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was the Brown Cow.

The power for the lifts was provided by a hydraulic water-power system that came directly from the pump house situated on Quay Street, by the River Irwell, where the water came from.

We now northwards into the High Street. The bank on the left has its long frontage to St Paul's Square, and is now a Ladbroke's betting shop.

We are looking east along St Peter's Street, where much on the south side has changed.

The slip road on the left-hand side leads through to a grid-work of streets of Victorian houses, presumably built to house the miners who came to live in the area during the mining boom of

At the east end of the Market Place is Bray's showroom, for the household furniture that was manufactured in their works in Agenoria Street near the canal.

The tailor's shop to the left was shortly taken over by Fells, Cycle & Wireless dealers (see W115023 on page 38-39), who also had premises in Norfolk Street, and until recently was Belfast's linen store

Here in South Street we see the late 15th-century Canon Gate which leads into the cathedral precincts.

The size of the Looe Hotel in Fore Street reflects the growing tourist industry, which was stimulated at Looe by a railway branch that had been connected to the main line system just seven years before

The proprietress of Taylforth's Hotel (left), in the main street of Eamont Bridge, stands outside to bid farewell to a guest departing in a pony and trap.

In the highly stratified society of Alderley Edge village, the Liberal Unionist Club in Stephen Street was for the village`s tradesmen.

At the north end of the High Street stands the 15th-century market cross, with Malmesbury Cottage Hospital and the abbey in the background.

We are looking south down the High Street, which runs from London Road towards the railway station. Crawley Hill is in the distance, covered in more spacious suburbs.

Try standing in the middle of the main street nowadays! Here at number 28 we have Joseph Kennerley's drapery and hosiery shop, which also doubled as the post office.

This street was named after the church, which was erected in 1818 on Packhorse field. The church lies behind the trees on the left.

The Town Hall, on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

This looks Southwards along South Street to St Mary`s parish church (centre).