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Serious building work is in progress in this normally sedate street. On the extreme right an area has been cordoned off with barriers, and beyond are the towers of hoists and cranes.

This view looks north towards Oxford Street. Nash's handsome terraces were spurned by London's affluent classes, for stucco was considered common.

Thirty years prior to the building of the new Town Hall, Leicester was in a dreadful sanitary condition, with privies literally over-flowing into the streets, and it was not until the mid 1850s that piped

With its cobbled main street, wide square and bustling market, Bedale sits astride a long, low hill on the edge of Wensleydale.

Spanning the narrow street of this hill-top village, which rests high on the chalk uplands overlooking the River Nar, is this monumental arch, ancient gateway to the castle, which lies ruinous close by

As the High Street disappears in the dis- tance it becomes the Monmouth Road.

To the right, the tall gabled building of 1915 is still occupied by WH Smith, but there have been some losses on the left side of the street, which is now partly pedestrianised.

Originally the village extended no further than Back Lane, Coldstream Lane, the High Street and the houses in the vicinity of the green, which we see in this photograph.

Sheaf Street did not survive modernisation and the buildings on the right, as far as the Dutch blind over the shop window, were swept away for the modern Foundry Walk shopping arcade.

The stone half way down the other side of the road marked the entry to Mill Lane which led to Mill Street, the main entry road to the town for many centuries.

It was to this street, in 1793, that Joseph Storrs Fry moved his chocolate-making business. The business was founded by Joseph's father, who had come to Bristol from Wiltshire.

Wimborne Street c1955.

Along Thames Street, east of the town's medieval river bridge, abbey buildings remain. Note the gabled 13th-century chimney stack to The Chequer.

Biddenden is a classic Wealden village with an unspoilt main street, lined with a range of fine medieval and 17th-century buildings.

'Pooh Corner' is in the High Street and all the 'Enchanted Places' are in the parish. In the picture there are close-studded timber-framed houses on the left, including Sexton's shop.

This is a very attractive village, with a narrow street and thatched cottages. The lychgate stands at the entrance to the churchyard.

View from just into North Load Street. The railings have now gone, but the stone steps survive.

The forerunner of secondary modern schools and comprehensives, Waller Street School was established during the period when extended education beyond the age of 10 was unusual.

Gothic-style drinking fountain of 1860 has been relocated to the cemetery in South Road, presumably to save it from the traffic, while the good stone-tile-roofed building beyond on the corner of South Street is

The High Street looks quiet here; it usually seems much busier today. But a lot of that is just traffic passing through.

The National Provincial Bank (now NatWest) was built in 1931, when the High Street was widened (involving substantial demolition). Lloyd's Bank next door was built in 1932.

It had already been popular with wealthy city merchants for a century or so, and much housing development had taken place along the High Street.

This front towards King Street had shops on the ground floor, one of which was the Essex and Suffolk Fire Office. The building became a film theatre in 1973.

More evidence of Coronation flags and bunting is shown in this view of Wood Street, Wakefield, looking up towards the clock tower of the Town Hall, built in 1880 in the French Gothic style by T E Collcutt