Not much has changed in these two views of High Street. The picture on the left was taken at the turn of the 20th century and the one on the right at the turn of the 21st century
In medieval times High Street was called Wheat Hill and Cornmarket Street.
Pictured in the early 1900s, John Sparrow (right) and friend push their Penny-farthing bikes up High Street's steep hill.
LEFT: Brick-built tailor’s workshop attached to the rear of Tissimans. RIGHT: Middle Row was demolished in 1937 to make way for the town’s new police station.
A local artist named Hilda Morris painted this study of High Street in 1935. The Boar’s Head Inn is at the top of the picture and Basbow Lane is bottom right. The shops, that were part of Middle Row, were replaced by the present day police station
The ghost of Stortford’s ‘Grey Lady’ has reputedly been seen in the cellar of this unusual shaped house at the bottom of King Street
