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In fact, this building occupies a fairly small plot in a convenient location at the end of the High Street.

But coal was still king when this photograph was taken of the High Street, and the post office, on the left, was a centre of village activity.

hospital (1576) on the right, so called since it performed that function during the Napoleonic Wars, forms the main subject of this early picture of the most photographed of Rye's cobbled streets

Named for the mulberry tree that grew in the garden, this 18th-century Kentish hall house in the High Street was once at the centre of Snodland, where the market cross stood outside The Red Lion inn opposite

The street is almost deserted apart from a motor lorry, motorcycle and a few pedestrians, showing that the photograph was probably taken in the winter, outside the tourist season.

The pavement here is a jungle of Belisha beacons, old-fashioned street lamps, telegraph poles, A-boards, bus-stops, and an unusual white phone-box.

G E Street restored the church in 1860-61.

Puriton's brick and tile industry has now gone, but Middle Street is much the same today. Biggs' general store (right), now the post office, sits here above Good's Farm.

In a 1970s redevelopment, car parks were built behind the shops, and the street was pedestrianised.

Yarm has a remarkably wide High Street, typical of many North Riding market towns.

The house on the corner of Chapel Street (centre) now has a porch in the second bay. Still's stores (right) later became Simpson's antique shop, and since 1990 it has been a private house.

Tragically for Church Street, the left-hand buildings were demol- ished and rebuilt much further back. Fortunately, those to the right, including The Old Plough, survive.

Charming thatched cottages on Bourn's High Street. These days, Bourn is probably best known for Bourn Hall clinic, renowned the world over for its pioneering work with test-tube babies.

This view looks away from Kimbolton Castle along the High Street.

Salisbury was founded in the 13th century: there was no earlier settlement here, consequently the wide streets were laid out on a grid pattern.

At first this view looks typical of many streets in small towns all over the country; and yet just behind the buildings on the left is Alsager Mere, which is most attractive.

In fact, this building occupies a fairly small plot in a convenient location at the end of the High Street.

The Parade is a spacious street bordered by elegant late-Georgian houses and stucco terraces.

This busy shopping street reveals a wealth of fine old wooden shopfronts.

We can see the horse carriage gently manoeuvring out of Brook Street, only pausing for a few solitary cars.

This would have been dusty in summer and a quagmire in winter, especially with the heavy horse-drawn traffic that would have moved up and down this street to load and unload the vessels moored along the

The old cobbled street still remains, and views of the brooding Yorkshire moors are still enchanting visitors from around the world.

Not something that would happen today with any degree of safety, a gentleman poses for the camera in the middle of the street.

A nostalgic view of a quiet Epsom High Street, with horse-drawn traffic and pedestrians only - plus a few dogs - and a gas lamp standard.