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A millwright called John Bewley had established an iron-foundry in New Street in 1808, on the site of some hop kilns.

This street-name reminds us of Belfast the market town: the view looks from Arthur Square (another Chichester name).

Here we see the well-treed street looking more mature; the photographer is looking south back towards the town centre. It was truly a sylvan approach to Bedford Park.

A delivery van can be seen at the entrance to Church Street, with the King William the IV pub and its hanging lantern nearer to the camera.

Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.

At the opposite end of the High Street, past the North Street junction, stands the Wesleyan church; its foundation stone was laid by the splendidly named Williamson Lamplouch in September 1868

Back in Surrey, the route reaches Haslemere; we look south-west along the High Street into the market place of this small town, with the 1814 Town Hall closing the vista.

Bath Street curves away northwards from the Square and its junction with the High Street.

The Assembly Rooms, dominating the right side of the street, opened in 1888 and was used for dances, lectures and public entertainment.

Here we see Back Street (left) and the Square (right), with the flamboyant Victorian double shop fronts of the grocers G H Stephens & Company on the corner (centre).

Going back under the railway viaduct, we ascend Toothill Lane to its junction with Leeming Street, which crosses the foreground.

This view is looking towards the High Street, and is greatly changed. All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border, evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere, which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

During the 15th century, Headcorn was a cloth-making centre which prospered with the arrival of Flemish weavers, and its single, long street has several fine buildings dating back to that time.

Its winding streets and lanes are lined with slate-roofed stone cottages, some colour-washed, their gardens stuffed tight with exotic plants and palms.

The pillar box is now further down the High Street. In the foreground are Nos 1 and 2 Debden Road. No 1 is divided by a drainpipe from 100 High Street.

With its steep, winding streets and pretty cottages, there is a definite hint of Devon or Cornwall about it.

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street. We

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

Standing in the High Street at Hoddesdon must be one of the last horse-drawn milk delivery floats in the district (centre right).

Forming a boundary with the original Augustinian priory site established by Henry I, the High Street follows the route of the Watling Street ancient trackway.

This Congregational chapel opened in 1839 as an offshoot from Friars Street chapel. The name Trinity was chosen to indicate the group's opposition to Unitarian non-Trinitarian doctrine.

By Victorian times it was a sleepy near-village with a medieval street plan, numerous medieval cellars and architecturally mostly 18th-and 19th-century, as in this view west along High Street.

Here we look south down North Bridge Street towards that junction with High Street.