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At the end of Main Street is the entrance to Sewerby Hall, now a fine museum officially opened in June 1936 by the Hull-born aviator Amy Johnson (1903-41).

Polperro is the archetypal Cornish fishing village - a higgledy-piggledy maze of narrow streets leading down to a perfect, tiny harbour.

The name 'Market Jew' lives on in the name of nearby Penzance's main street.

This is Richmond's finest townscape: a steeply- curving cobbled street where handsome town houses mingle with small cottages.

The ivy-clad King's Head public house, on the right, is a popular local hostelry, although the gallows-type pub sign out in the street has long gone.

Gainford is noted for its 13th-century church, Georgian houses, narrow streets and one of the finest village greens in the southern part of the county.

The main street runs north lined with estate cottages of around 1900, which seem to have been built on the village green.

Now it provides a focal point for the start of the town's main shopping street.

The Dutch gables on the houses along both sides of this street are a good example of the influence that the many Dutch and Flemish immigrants to Norfolk from the 16th century onwards have had over local

Unfortunately, flashy cuckoos have taken over the High Street nest.

Those on a restricted budget could avail themselves of the York, a temperance establishment on Spencer Street, where a room could be had for 1s 6d.

Looking west from Bathampton Down, past the villas of Bathwick across the northern half of the city, we can see how the formality of the ramrod-straight Great Pulteney Street to the left contrasts with

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Barnwood stands on Ermin Street, which was built by the Romans to link the two important towns of Glevum (Gloucester) and Corinium (Cirencester), so the road we see in this picture

Newerne Street is Lydney's main shopping area; it has undergone a great deal of redevelopment since this photograph was taken.

Although this scene looks tranquil, Northleach High Street was chock-a-block every day with heavy traffic until the by-pass opened in the 1990s.

To the right is the ivy-covered gateway leading into School Lane and High Street West.

Stramongate is the main approach road into Kendal from the north-east, and means 'the street of the straw men'. St George's Church is in the background.

This hospital was built as a replacement for the cottage hospital in Bank Street. Mrs Ludlow Bruges of Seend was the benefactor who gave the hospital to the town.

The almshouses in Union Street (far left) were built in 1861.

The station, which lies a short distance to the left along Market Street, was used as a set during the filming of 'Brief Encounter'.

We are looking along Egremont's Promenade towards New Brighton from Tobin Street.

On the other side of the street, the bay-windowed house was a hardware shop, but is a house now; next door the white hut was a blacksmith's, but has since been demolished.

At the end of the main street rises the spire of St Wilfred's parish church, originally a Saxon foundation; it was 'beautified' in 1612.