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High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten.

As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.

Horncastle is one of the county's most ancient towns.

This view looks south down the High Street from near High Bridge.

Robert Willance lived in the whitewashed house with large chimneystack on the right (Willance miraculously survived when in 1606 his horse bolted and fell 200 feet).

Robert Willance lived in the whitewashed house with large chimneystack on the right (Willance miraculously survived when in 1606 his horse bolted and fell 200 feet).

Ilfracombe's growth was helped by the building of the Barnstaple turnpike and a new pier, but neglect of other amenities led to a cholera epidemic, which swept the town in 1849.

When it was completed in 1794, St Peter's Church was on the very edge of the built-up area of the town.

It is sad that with the development of a large shopping centre in Telford town centre, Oakengates no longer attracts shoppers as it once did - even the branch of Woolworth we see here has

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Cark was a busy mill town.

By the close of the century, the town had attracted many of the wealthiest industrialists and shipping magnates intent on escaping an overcrowded Cardiff.

The wide, gently curving High Street is perhaps best admired from its lowest point and looking west.

At the time of this photograph, Hoskins, a family brewery in Beaumanor Road, Belgrave, in Leicester, owned this, their one public house.

We are looking in the same direction, only this time the view is taken from lower down the road, and shows the fine villas very much associated with the town.

The town developed as a Victorian holiday resort, as many did on the North Wales Coast.

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

A closer view of Market Place, minus its Saturday morning stalls and with only the refreshment stand by the lamp- post facing onto the 17th- and 19th-century shops and offices.

The Old Bank building, which stood at the junction of Chertsey Road, High Street and Broadway, failed to survive the post Second World War swathe of redevelopment which saw many of the town's Victorian

The Pavilion Theatre and Ballroom was established in 1928, and has remained popular with visitors ever since.

Until the 1960s, most people relied on public transport, and the green-liveried buses of United Counties carried workers and shoppers in and out of town on busy timetables.

The only medical institutions listed on the Johnson & Green street plan of 1868 are the Convalescent Home & Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and the Hydropathic Hospital.

The mill occupies an island between the two rivers, Thet and Little Ouse.

Looking east from Blucher Street this view shows how steeply the chalk hills rise behind the town, still undeveloped.

Despite the fact that post-war rationing was still in force, this market town was thriving.