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On either side of the High Street, some of the former well-stocked shops have become estate agents, marketing the many bungalows and houses that were built for families who came year after year to enjoy

Until the 1990s, Broadway High Street was home to the Gordon Russell furniture factory.

Twenty years later, the scene is much the same, although the street has now been sealed with a tarmacadam surface.

This picture shows its quaint, narrow High Street with the 450-year-old Lord Nelson pub, originally a customs house, on the left. Note the motor cycle and sidecar in the left foreground.

This building stands on the corner of Barrack Street, and is now a private house.

This estate was built after 1951; it was formerly the site of a mixed orchard, whose produce was sold through a greengrocer in Minster High Street.

In common with so many towns on The Wirral, West Kirby is not enslaved to the usual High Street brand names and retains a remarkable measure of independence.

Two helmeted local 'bobbies' stride towards the camera in another view of the Market Place in Chesterfield, looking up the High Street towards the famous Crooked Spire of the parish church of St Mary

The ornamental floral beds that here border St James' Street have now been removed, but buses still use the area as their terminus.

The ornamental floral beds that here border St James' Street have now been removed, but buses still use the area as their terminus.

A local farmworker, dog at his feet and scythe over his shoulder, stands outside the Ship Inn as an early motor car (which looks suspiciously as if it has been superimposed) drives up the Main Street

Daniel George Bingham, a great benefactor to Cirencester, was born in Blackjack Street in 1830.

The memorial cross stands on Lawrence Sheriff Street, and was erected to the memory of those who died in the First World War.

The High Street has a fascinating diversity of provincial architecture dating from the 16th century through to the late 19th century.

Here we are looking west along Hart Street with its interesting shops, inns and tearooms.

This view of a virtually deserted Emgate shows a street of sturdy 18th- and 19th-century houses leading up to the Royal Hotel at the top of the hill.

Here is a view over Colston Avenue to Colston Street, with Colston Hall theatre just hidden behind the General Insurance building (centre right).

What a difference a few well-groomed trees make to this street scene. We can just see the Market Cross on the right in the distance.

Local gentry applied for an Act of Parliament to allow them to build a new town and to develop the harbour, and work began in 1807, when the grid of streets was laid out.

This is Richmond's finest townscape: a steeply- curving cobbled street where handsome town houses mingle with small cottages.

Standing just one mile east of Chester-le-Street, Lumley Castle dates from the late 14th century, when Sir Robert Lumley was granted two licences to crenellate.

In 1846 the game was finally banned from the streets of Derby. Hence comes the expression a 'Derby game' when two local teams play one another.

Sixty-five years on from photograph No 26547, and not very much has changed, save for the more abundant foliage, and Trumpington Street now echoing to the sound of cars!

On the right is a branch of International Stores who had larger premises in South Street. So too did W Muskett the grocers and confectioners whose delivery cart is on the left.