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Here were clipped green lawns and exquisite quadrangles.The fortunate few could enjoy a few precious moments away from the bustle of the city streets above.

Paternoster Row, on the right, was once a fashionable shopping street patronised by Pepys and his wife.

The long main street of the town gives a feeling that this was a community grown up around a great highway.

King Street is the location of the former market place, which was built over many years ago. Also along here is the timber-framed Saracen's Head.

The smart uniformed soldier stands silent guard outside this building, built in 1878 on the corner of Fishergate and Melbourne Street.

The shop fronts and the general street scene have changed considerably since this picture was taken. The Poultry Cross is just visible, left of centre. Delivery boys lean on their handcart.

This view looks from Lord Leycester's Hospital along the High Street.

This view of the parish church of St Nicolas is from the corner of Bartholomew Street and West Mills.

Taken from almost the same spot in Long Street as photograph 75947; a signpost has appeared, indicating the way to Dorchester, Blandford, Wincanton and Shaftesbury.

This photograph was taken from the cross, the best place to start looking at Northgate Street. Stead & Simpson, the shoe shop, is located four buildings down from the traffic lights on the right.

When the new Worcester Bridge opened in 1781 it gave Broad Street quite a boost, helping it to support three coaching inns.

The streets are packed with onlookers, and anxious officials wait by the entrance to the site of the new town hall.

A good selection of traders line the left side of the street, including W J Dolding & Son and a bakery. Further along is the Golden Eagle pub and Boots the Chemist.

Originally known as the Sherborne, or Imperial Promenade, Cheltenham's fashionable thoroughfare began its existence as a walkway from the High Street to a spa pump room that stood where the Queen's Hotel

Indeed, many of the Georgian and 19th-century facades in the High Street, which winds uphill towards the market place, conceal medieval and later timber-framed buildings.

If one needed refreshments, the Tea Cosy Cafe was a little further down the street. All the buildings on the right-hand side were soon to be demolished and the site redeveloped by Boots.

Barnt Green is a rare village in this series in that instead of the number of shops on the main street declining, here they have actually increased.

the shopping centre to be able to boast Curzon and Son's betting shop, Tottles' newsagents, the Robinsons family grocer's shop with the Wavy Line sign, and across the road, on the corner with High Street, B

The High Street, this time looking east towards the (then) new Town Hall.

The L-shaped Quadrant Arcade, stretching between South Street and the Market Place, was formally opened on 23 September 1935.

The Gaumont cinema can be seen next door to the Beaufort hotel at the top of St Mary Street (right). On the left is the Provincial Bank, which today is the Natwest.

Street Farm (left) still displays parish notices, and the sign (far right) still directs travellers to the excellent Nelson Head pub.

Its bypass has not really helped, and the town's streets are seldom as quiet as on this day in the 1960s. Bridport is best explored on foot, so park the car and wander around.

We are looking down Church Street in Bexhill's old town, which lies inland from the seaside resort. The walnut tree on the right once marked the old town's centre; it was cut down in 1921.