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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.

At the head of the street, the white cottage of the later 16th century is one of few survivors, built prior to Enclosure in 1767.

Earlier pictures of Evesham Street show Cranmore Simmons on the corner, a family-run furniture business established by Alfred Simmons in the 1920s.

At No 72 High Street, which was owned by the family building firm of Croad, there is a small hole in the quarter-inch-thick pane of the bay window facing north.

Kempock Street is a popular street of many shops and dwellings near the pier and ferry terminal. It has become a focal point for day-trippers and tourists.

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

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

Here in the main street, a policeman stands on traffic duty at the junction with Accrington Road outside the Whalley Arms.The church here was once the mother church for half of Lancashire (47 townships

The Guildhall still dominates this scene of the lower High Street. Cars fill a single line of parking on the waste of the manor. The pavement is up and men are busy in front of Burden's shop.

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

There is much to see in this picture, including the flat-capped men looking directly at the photographer on the right, and the more casual observers further up the street.

Staines may have got its name from the stone- paved remains of a branch of the Roman road of Akeman Street, that once ran to the important Roman station of Ad Pontes nearby, or perhaps

Animals, local produce and other implements such as weaponry and agricultural tools were sold at the junction of the three main streets, Coleshill Street, Mill Street and High Street, and Sutton