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in the Market Place.

These opposing views of the High Street are photographed at five year intervals.

The name Eccles comes from 'ecclesia', and means 'the place of the church', so it is no surprise that its central street is called Church Street.

This view looks from the top of King Street down towards Cross Street. We can see that the street narrows towards the bottom.

Previously a corn mill, the building was converted to manufacture hand-made paper in 1713.

Around AD 120, a mansio was built on a slight rise overlooking the site of the fort.

This view looks from within the circle, west to the High Street which continues outside the henge. The post office (left) is now a Celtic gift shop.

Glasgow received its first charter from King William the Lion in about 1175, and for the first time it was designated by the Latin term civitas (city).

Looking North The main street of Old Swindon was first recorded in 1581.

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

By the beginning of the 17th century the centre of Glasgow had shifted south, to the foot of the High Street where it joined the Saltmarket.

As a barometer of Formby's growth in the second half of the 20th century, Chapel Lane (facing us) is a good measuring device.

Until the reign of Henry VIII, the lack of saltpetre in England meant most gunpowder was imported.

From the river bank near the Leander Club we can look across to the river front of Henley and imagine its bankside wharfs alive with the shouts of bargees and watermen loading their barges, with

And not forgetting the pasty man who marched about with a steaming tray of toothsome savouries, yelling `All `ot!

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

By the time of this photograph Cromer had experienced a continuing building boom, which included new premises for fashionable stores such as Jarrold & Sons (left), who are still flourishing both in Cromer

This 1903 view looking south down the High Street is full of detail. It seems to have been taken one warm morning - note the open windows, and the summery dresses of the girls on the right.

The Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence, where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.

The National Westminster Bank (extreme right) is next door to a seed merchant, still an important trader in a country town before seeds were brightly packaged and sold by garden centres.

By the beginning of the 17th century the centre of Glasgow had shifted south, to the foot of the High Street where it joined the Saltmarket.

From their sources on the high land, the numerous rivers run across this landscape and make their winding ways toward the coast.

Ye Olde Tobacco Shoppe (left) was the home of blacksmith Samuel Govier, who provided the artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler with a back room for his studio.

After the Second World War the business moved to the High Street, and made the most of Epsom's connections with the riding world. They supplied Nightingalls, Dullers, and other trainers.