South Street in 1919. the single-storey reading room of the Working Men’s Club is on the left.

Interior of the Great Hall with tables laid for a large function.

South Street in the early 1980s

Construction work begins on Marks & Spencer’s new store in 1986.

P.H. Stevens Music Salon pictured in 1928.

Refurbishment of buildings in the 1980s by former Stortford based firm, Elliott.

The Wesleyan chapel at No 1 South Street, pictured around 1900. It is now the site of WH Smiths.

1982: South Street looking south.

South Street in 1983 when the Regent cinema was a Bingo hall. The road was restricted to one-way traffic by this time but cars still had use of two lanes.

Redevelopment at the corner of Potter Street and Church Street in the early 1980s. The new building became Bishop’s Stortford branch of Abbey National Building Society.

The same building before demolition, partly occupied by Timothy Whites.

The Little King’s Head public house stood at the corner of Church Street from 1814-99. The site is now occupied by Boots store.

LEFT: The Reindeer public house stood approximately where Woolworth’s now stands. RIGHT: the buildings alongside WH Smiths, pictured here in the early 1980s, have changed very little since the photographs below were taked in the the 1920s.

Potter Street pictured in 1911. Scarfe’s drapery shop (left) stood on the site of the present Woolworth’s.

Potter Street in the late 19th century. The picture on the left shows the house and shop that was a fishmongers owned by Mr Muffet. This was pulled down in the 1890s to make the road wider and replaced by the present building that houses no’s 4 and 6. Pictured on the right are shops on the opposite of the road that include Waterloo House.

Woolworths new store, built in the early 1970s, replaced all Potter Street’s original shops on this side of the road.