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East Street used to lead from the Common Acre past a number of big houses. On the right, three dormers mark the roof of the Manse to the Congregational Church, built in 1780.

Here we see an empty street scene before motor traffic was commonplace. W Pocock, on the right, is a butcher's shop.

There are two old coaching inns in the High Street: the 14th-century George and the White Hart. In the picture an old-style touring caravan hitched up to its towing car waits at the roadside.

The first School building was constructed not too far from the church in what was to become Academy Street.

Above the third vehicle, making its way down the High Street towards the junction, is the sign of the original Harrow Inn, which was demolished in 1934 and replaced by the present building.

Nottingham University started in the city in 1881 on South Sherwood Street.

The photographer stood with his back to the impressive medieval castle motte to look across The Hollow into Borough Street and the town, with its excellent array of mainly 18th-century

The unprepossessing church of St Mary Magdalen by Henry Goddard (1813-99 - see St Andrew's, Countesthorpe) sits on the south side of the main street.

It is interesting to contrast the fine street light on the left with the vision of things to come on the right. Behind it is an appalling flat-roofed modern intrusion.

The hotel façade has not changed, but Boots have moved further along the High Street and the Halifax Bank has replaced Boots.

residence of successive members of one family: James Brooks came to Odiham in 1818 to join an attorney's partnership, and his descendants continued as solicitors in a purpose-built office in Church Street

We are looking along Chequer Street towards Honey Hill; the shape of the community has changed little.

The High Street served as the main thoroughfare until the bypass, first mooted before the war, was eventually built.

Most local needs could be found on Market Street, with its stone-fronted shops. Many of Shaw`s sturdy stone terraced houses had no bathrooms, and a tin bath is on sale on the left.

This view is looking north up Alderley Edge`s main shopping street, the little gardens in front of the premises can clearly be seen.

The photographer stood with his back to the impressive medieval castle motte to look across The Hollow into Borough Street and the town, with its excellent array of mainly 18th-century

It is interesting to contrast the fine street light on the left with the vision of things to come on the right. Behind it is an appalling flat-roofed modern intrusion.

It reinvented itself as a cloth-weaving town, and is today a quaint market town with narrow streets. The Elizabethan town hall is now the museum.

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

This is the top of Market Street, adjacent to Piccadilly.

Market Street was notorious for traffic congestion even in the 1880s.

As an example, consider the size of the Post Office on the left of Bedford Street. It is doubtful if it could cope with the demands of modern visitor throughput.

Their name lives on in medieval Kirkham House (see the drawing above) and Kirkham Street.

to Cathedral status in 1927, the building, although exhibiting 13th-century fabric, exudes an air of Victorian England, for it was 'restored' and added to by such hallowed names as George Edmund Street