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Originally called Dunstable Street, there is no available record of the reason for the change of name apart from the coincidence of the accession to the throne of King George V.

The street was developed during the 1830s as the town grew in response to the construction of the harbour for the export of coal.

In one of Helston's principal streets, we see on the right a characteristic gutter channel with running water.

The wealthy Butchers' Guild once had a guildhall in this street; it was demolished in the 19th century.

The street known as The Cross continues from Worcester's High Street. It was here that Elizabeth I was greeted as she entered the city in 1574.

Taken from the abbey roof, this photograph shows the 15th-century market cross in the centre, situated at the north end of the High Street.

In the 16th century, the area round the churchyard was the commercial centre of Alcester; it included Butter Street, which borders two sides of the churchyard.

Like Bridge Street, this is now pedestrianised. Rodwell's the solicitor's, on the left, has been lowered to two storeys.

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

Grange Road was one of the main shopping streets in Birkenhead, and was very popular. The street is now pedestrianised, and with St John's Pavement in its centre is still a popular shopping area.

By 1955 both Russell Street and George Street had become one way, as the road signs indicate.

We are looking eastwards along Manor Street. The three-storey building to the left is the Nag's Head Inn, and buildings with the finial on top are the Manor Street School.

Tilehouse Street, from the junction with Sun Street in 1955. The weather-boarded building on the right is Barham's gunsmiths, closed down after legislation destroyed its viability.

This is just one of the many narrow streets that are so characteristic of St Ives.

George Smith's Town Hall of 1830, which with its Ionic columns and Tuscan pillars bears a remarkable resemblance to the Corn Exchange at Bishop's Stortford and dominates St Peter's Street and its avenue

Church Street is busy with shoppers and shopkeepers. Peeping above the town's rooftops is the tower of St Michael the Archangel, perhaps the finest of Hampshire's Perpendicular parish churches.

The National Provincial Bank, a familiar sight in most High Streets until the company's closure in the 1960s, can be seen further down the street (centre left).

In the small streets and alleyways off South Street, the old rope-walks can still be seen. Much of the cordage for Royal Navy vessels was produced in and around Bridport.

Beyond the last building in Poultry, with its colonnade over the pavement, is Victoria Street, with its grand Victorian palazzos of commerce.

This view shows the High Street just before the development of the 1960s, when about 200 new houses were built off the High Street behind the trees.

The hotels and restaurants in the High Street offered a welcome break to travellers, who could also fill up their tanks with petrol from the single petrol pump at the garage.

Here we see the junctions of South Street and Union Street. The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with most of such things, it came complete with captured Russian cannon.

We are at the top of Main Street, looking back down through the village from the bus station.

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.