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The pub has now merged with the Barleycorn on the Buckingham Street corner and is archly renamed the Farmyard and Firkin.

Here the photographer looks west along the High Street from the junction with Outwood Lane on the morning of a fox hunt - this type of scene was much favoured for Frith postcards.

There has been much rebuilding of this part of the High Street, none of it for the better, since the 1950s; continuity has been achieved only by the building at the far left, which is still

Anglo-Saxon arcading was replaced by Norman arches in the 12th century. The view is northwards from North Street, down to the sign of the former Lord Nelson public house (centre).

Painted by the artist Turner, it became famous and was much visited. It was built by the Norman Montbegon family just after they arrived in Lancashire.

Note the round-arched windows and the ornamental bargeboards that are characteristic of the 1860s and early 1870s. Woodside Road was also laid through the former Benhill Woods.

Much of the original structure was built using rubble from the remains of the Roman town of Verulamium, which stood close to the present Verulamium Park.

Once a port described by Daniel Defoe as 'fairer, and much deeper, than those at Watchet and Porlock', it turned into a major seaside bathing resort in the later 19th century.

By 1962 they were being torn apart by landslips, and the situation was much the same in 2005, with this area being sealed off.

This view from the middle of the Market Place is not much altered since 1922. The view towards the Royal Hotel and Lloyds Bank is almost unchanged.

Clothes were still made at home, and Thoday sold patterns, often by Vogue, which could cost as much as 7s 6d, and also the more humble and easier designs selling for 1s 9d.

Here the photographer looks from by the churchyard gate past the Half Moon pub to the unusual arch formed by two elm trees, now long gone. The pavements are large slabs of sandstone.

The Tone Stone, on which business deals were struck, is partially obscured in front of the centre arch.

The road widens to form Posey Green, with the 1930s Horseshoe Inn on the right out of camera shot; it is a rambling mix of local sandstone and timber-framing with a huge horseshoe- arched

When the bus station opened on 20 May 1963, much Castleford history was lost with the demolition of the Queen's Head Hotel and Wainwright Street.

In the centre is the square gate tower with its arched water gate. Boats could enter the castle through the water gate, as there was a small quay to the rear of the tower.

Beyond, much is rebuilt, apart from the 18th-century three-storey building with a pediment and Venetian windows.

The abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539 and was sold to the Earl of Essex and his agent, John Stedman, whose family later used much of the stone in their mansion and farm buildings.

There is much to see in this picture, including the flat-capped men looking directly at the photographer on the right, and the more casual observers further up the street.

Several people were killed, and much damage was done to local property.

Since 1909, Brooks and Sons and the house to its left have been demolished, and the Arches Way road formed. To the right, the finial belongs to The Avalon Club of 1897.

Not long after, the enthusiastic wood-carving cleric Canon Wilson adorned the interior with much of his own work.

The house on the left, Gothic House, has elegant Strawverry Hill Gothick style late 18th-century arched windows, while the gabled wing has a painting of St George and the Dragon above the first floor window

On the street, a new generation had not yet been born in the Victorian shot, but otherwise not much has changed.