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This attractive village retains its quiet rural atmosphere; it is ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

This is the building on the far left of picture W97078, but this time was taken in an age before the motorcar was to change the look of our streets for ever.

We are in the centre of Ambleside; Lamb's Royal Oak Hotel is on the left, and the White Lion Hotel is in the centre.A coach-and-four has pulled up outside the White Lion, while bustle in the main street

As can be seen in this view, Fore Street exhibited a rather heterogeneous range of architectural styles.

This view along the main street towards the church has little changed during fifty years.

Once named Candle Lane because candles were sold here, the street was renamed to commemorate the visit of Princess Victoria in the 1800s.

This view looks north-west across the water meadows towards the church from beside the stream where it passes under Germain Street.

Sheep on the High Street are a distant memory, but the town has managed to preserve a number of older buildings - including the 16th-century porch on the left.

The High Street runs down between pollarded lime trees and mellow stone houses to the River Windrush.

The only real change to this scene is that now there are no cars - the whole of Bridge Street up to Cathedral Square has been closed to traffic and paved over.

This photograph shows Lindfield's very long, curving main street, which climbs gently towards the unusually tall spire of the mainly 13th-century church.

It was demolished in 1947 to make way for the new street plan. Its tower occupied a position which today is on the west side of Armada Way near where the Western Morning News office now stands.

When this photograph was taken, with the white painted Commercial Hotel on the left, there were still trams running up and down the town's streets.

The scene has changed very little since 1955, except that this fine street has been blighted by the thoughtless introduction of ugly lighting columns; the parking problems, very apparent in 2000, are beginning

This view looks from Lord Leycester's Hospital along the High Street. Built in 1571, the hospital provided accommodation for 12 poor brothers, former soldiers who had seen service with the family.

This view, closer in from the junction of North Parade and Pierrepont Street, shows the site of the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, now a bustling bus station.

Note the shopkeepers diligently scanning the High Street in search of custom. Outside E.W.

Its long street winds between brick, tile- and timber-clad cottages with their pleasing confusion of rooflines. Note the safe walkways above the road.

There were cottages in Bulls Cross Lane (now Bulls Cross), and there were two small settlements in Whitewebbs Lane-Romey Street (at the Bulls Cross End) and Whitewebbs proper (near the King and

The statues of Raphael and Michelangelo stand on the entrance steps to the Walker Art Gallery in William Brown Street.

The pavement here is a jungle of Belisha beacons, old-fashioned street lamps, telegraph poles, A-boards, bus-stops, and an unusual white phone-box.

The forge lit up the whole street at night-time.

Note the gas street lamps, and the delivery wagon outside the hotel in the centre of the picture.

In Cheap Street is the Conduit, originally situated in the cloisters of Sherborne Abbey and used as a washing house, or lavatorium.