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When this picture of the High Street was taken, there would be plenty of outlets from which it was possible to buy tobacco products.

The inn's name moved here from Hill Street in the 1840s.

A quarter of a century apart, this and the previous view of the High Street show how little it changed throughout the 20th century, with the exception of traffic problems and an increased number

Village Street leads away downhill to the old post office.

This one-street town is one of the most delightful in England; it is a special place to visit and an even better one to stay in, to use as a base for the exploration of Worcestershire.

No motor vehicles are allowed in its steep cobbled streets, and what we see today is essentially what our cameraman saw in 1930.

There is now plenty of traffic on the street. A sign in the middle of the row of buildings on the left is for the library.

Further west along Main Street, looking towards Lyme Regis, the plateau of Langdon Hill forms the skyline (centre). The cart is beside Rose Cottage and Foss Cottage (left).

Here we see some horse-drawn carriages, including a street cleaner's cart, parked outside the Parish Church of St John Baptist.

Dominant in this photograph of the east end of the High Street is the Town Hall, which at the date of this photograph had just been rebuilt by local architect C E Ponting.

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

The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.

This street has become estate agents' row - at Nos 4, 14, 18a and 24 Chalet Hill that is just what you will find.

The house on the corner of Montrose Street to the left is now another medical centre, with a dental surgery next door.

Horbury, three miles south-west of Wakefield, was once one of the busiest railway junctions in the country; hence, perhaps, the absence of any form of traffic in the High Street in this photograph.

This is Georgian urban architecture and townscape at its best, and our route starts in Queen Square, west of Milsom Street.

Heading north-east out of Bath on the A4, cross the A46 junction onto the old A4, which soon becomes Batheaston High Street.

Walk along Brock Street, and you reach the quite extraordinary Royal Crescent of John Wood the Younger.

Along Dinder's main street the Doulting Water was diverted to provide running water for the inhabitants.

Wribbenhall is situated on the opposite bank of the river to Bewdley, and architecturally its streets are far more interesting than Severnside.

A coach-and-four has pulled up outside the White Lion, while bustle in the main street shows how busy Ambleside had become as a tourist centre by this time.

Cocks House, in the distance at the junction with Back Street, is unchanged.

To the right lies Broad Street.

Gas street lighting is already in place on the station approach road, but not on the Bideford road which leaves to the left.