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We can see the horse carriage gently manoeuvring out of Brook Street, only pausing for a few solitary cars.

This would have been dusty in summer and a quagmire in winter, especially with the heavy horse-drawn traffic that would have moved up and down this street to load and unload the vessels moored along the

The old cobbled street still remains, and views of the brooding Yorkshire moors are still enchanting visitors from around the world.

Not something that would happen today with any degree of safety, a gentleman poses for the camera in the middle of the street.

A nostalgic view of a quiet Epsom High Street, with horse-drawn traffic and pedestrians only - plus a few dogs - and a gas lamp standard.

Viewed from North Street, the main body of the church shows the nave's clerestory windows and the chancel's tall east window of five lights, but the spire is its crowning glory.

Beyond is the totally out-of-scale Kirkgate Centre, in a florid Victorian style of 1887, but the spire is the real focus of this fine street.

At the top of Sheep Street is the largely 17th-century Hind Hotel, perhaps the best secular building in the town.

Turning left out of Castle Hill, Bailgate follows the course of the Roman Ermine Street towards the old Roman north gate from the city, the Newport Arch.

Both sides of the water were reached by stairs from the High Street.

England's best known Romantic poet was born in this Georgian mansion in Cockermouth's Main Street in 1770. His father was steward to Sir James Lowther, and moved to the house in 1766.

In 1904, Winchester Street became Winchester Road, where houses ceased and countryside began. Here the picture was taken with Old Winton Road behind on the right.

Although some of the cob and thatch buildings have been replaced, there are still examples to be seen, and North Street is narrow to this day.

The Horse and Groom together with the next two buildings made way for a road; the Queens Head inn now occupies a corner of the new road - Queen Street.

Mayfield stands on the summit of a hill, and has one of the most picturesque long streets in the county.

In West Street we can see the old-established retailers Farncombe, the local butcher (centre), and Greenfield's (right).

Winchcombe's main street has changed remarkably little in the past four decades. It remains a thriving thoroughfare of small shops that cater for the locals' needs to this day.

The Bishop of Winchester granted a weekly market here in the 13th century, and looking at this photograph of one of the village streets, little has changed since the mid 1950s.

An open-topped double-decker bus rumbles up the High Street on its way to Epsom and Redhill, with the conductor collecting fares from the passengers.

This is another view of the High Street, although here the road is much wider. The London Co-operative Society shop can be seen on the right.

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

There is enough of old Hailsham surviving to make a visit worthwhile, but it has to be admitted that this part of the High Street has suffered greatly.

As a relatively new town, Bournemouth was able to develop as a holiday resort unencumbered by the street pattern and buildings of an older settlement; its main purpose has always been to cater for thousands

We are looking south along the High Street past the Olde Place Hotel, whose brick and flint façade disguises a 16th-century half-timbered building.