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Parallel with Milford Street and leading to Market Square, this was a major shopping street before the new ring-road turned it into a cul-de-sac.

This is the street which, along with Queen Street, was cut through the infamous Rookeries in the 1880s.

This narrow back street, running parallel to the High Street, has changed a little. The Half Moon pub (right) has gone, and there are traffic-calming bumps here now.

Whitewashed houses and pantiled roofs characterise this photograph of the deserted Main Street of Green Hammerton, a small village in the Vale of York and on Roman Dere Street, just off the main A59 Harrogate

A view north up Church Street with Surrey Street Market to the right.

This early Edwardian dusty street scene reminds me of a cowboy film! Close scrutiny of this picture shows us a hardware shop (left), Staffordshire House, established in 1849.

With the towers of the Minster in the background, this street lined with red brick and white-rendered Georgian cottages has a pleasing elegance and symmetry.

Along with Mill Street and Jordangate, Chestergate was one of the first streets to be properly paved, and, more importantly, to be provided with surface drainage.

The church at the far end of the street is Wesley Memorial Church. Situated in New Inn Hall Street, it opened in October 1878.

Lower Street is the part of the square of Merriott's main streets nearest the Parrett. It has many old Ham stone cottages, some thatched, and some with stone mullioned windows.

It is hard to imagine a town with a population of 2,000 being short-listed for the Welsh capital when it consists essentially of two intersecting streets.

Fleet Street had been 'the street of ink' ever since Caxton's assistant Wynkyn de Worde set up his press next to St Bride's Church in 1500.

Bank Street is set back from the front and meets Fore Street at the town square.

South Street has been less spoiled than other streets in Dorking, and many of its old buildings remain.

A farm trap and a carriage with a liveried coachman make their way along George Street past the imposing façade of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, on the left, and the Brooklyn Cycle Depot across

An interesting mix of architectural styles characterises Braunston's High Street. Some of the houses are built of brick, some of stone.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather’s Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

Crossing Mary Street from the southern end of the High Street brings the explorer of Taunton to Vivary Park.

Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.

A pair of ladies in fashionable Edwardian costume stroll along the raised pavement of Rowcroft on their way to the shops of King Street. A little ahead of them is a gas lamp standard.

The livestock market was originally held in the High Street on Tuesdays, before being moved to North Street in 1865; thirty years later it moved again to this site in Woodbridge Road.

It is on the top edge of the village: the road to the left leads out of the village towards Watling Street, and the one to the right takes you into the village street.

The Horse and Gate pub (left) has been redeveloped into shops, the Lion Hotel (right) is now flats, and parking is only allowed on the left-hand side of the street.

From the junction with Silver Street and Gold Street you can spot the distinctive tall tower of a former boys school, now an educational centre.