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Castle Street is one of the two main streets, the other being Watergate.

This is the busiest and main shopping street in Great Yarmouth. Everything is available here, from wine (left) to shoes (right).

Beyond are the tall gables and chimneys of the Bury Street School of the 1860s: both it and the hotel were demolished in the 1960s for the pedestrian shopping mall that replaced Bury Street entirely.

This view looks north up High Street towards the Church Street and Heathfield Road crossroads.

Originally a mere sub-branch of Cardiff's Bute Street, the growing stature of the town is evidenced by the bank's gaining of both 'full' status (c1886) and Bute Street's erstwhile manager, Mr H W Rice!

This view of busy Sheep Street shows patient bus passengers corralled into queues by solid metal barriers. On the left the parade of Piccadilly Buildings ends with the George Hotel.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Previously called South Street, this was redeveloped in the late 18th century. The 'Brick' building sited opposite the Boot and Shoe was erected in 1770 out of bricks not needed for the Cloth Hall.

Its broad High Street has a pleasing mixture of half-timbered buildings and elegant Regency houses. The fine medieval church has a magnificent 15th-century tower.

Yet just a dozen years after photograph 68727 (above), the High Street was much busier with traffic - we get a feeling of Budleigh entering our familiar modern world.

The street follows the course of the Roman road Ermine Street, and is typically without any sign of a bend.

Station Street turns east from the High Street, and once led to the railway station on the branch line from Gainsborough to Doncaster, closed since the 1960s.

Baldock Street leads northwards out of Ware towards Thundridge. The higgledy-piggledy row of pubs, shops and dwellings has hardly changed over the years.

Broadly speaking, the valley along Broad Street and Berkhamstead Road was for artisans and the working classes, the areas to east and west were middle class.

This is an attractive village ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

At right angles to Windsor Street, Guildford Street has seen many changes since the 1950s. In the distance in this view are the trees of St Peter's parish churchyard.

The village has two halves, one by the church and the other the north-south High Street, separated from each other by the grounds of The Abbey, another former grange to Abingdon Abbey with a fine aisled

We are at the bottom of Fore Street looking towards Newbridge Hill. An earlier Frith view from 1908 shows that the buildings have hardly changed, although the scene looks very different today.

Cromwell's statue is the very middle of our picture: for many years it was nicknamed 'the pedestrian's friend', as it gave a refuge to people crossing the busy street.

St Mary Street is one of the city's main thoroughfares, where shoppers and visitors could find the finest hotels, theatres and department stores, all built in a grandiose manner.

This view of busy Sheep Street shows patient bus passengers corralled into queues by solid metal barriers. On the left the parade of Piccadilly Buildings ends with the George Hotel.

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

One change with which no one disagreed was the removal of the bus terminus in Williamson Street (opposite) to a dedicated site nearby.