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G E Street restored the church 1852-61. The building on the right may have been a tithe barn. Note that the village is well above flood level.

The Church of the Epiphany and St John in Elizabeth Street stands 105ft high; its design is superb, with a star-shaped roof and an aluminium-coated steel- framed spire surmounted with a combined

North Hill descends from the High Street. The church on the right is St Peter's - the town church.The tower was completed in 1758.

The dated 1960s architecture of Oxford House opposite faces demolition - clearance of the Hayes/Bridge Street site is scheduled to make way for a vast new retail complex.

Castle Hill was one of Axminster's earliest residential streets, though always mixed with trade. The cottages on the right have survived, although they are much altered.

There are quite a number of cars parked in the narrow street in front of Harry and Alfred Kilminsters automobile engineering works (right), which specialized in car electrical repairs.

The clock on Botley's Market Hall is still a familiar landmark in the High Street. Just this side of it can be seen the premises of Botley Garages, now a sports shop and a hairdresser's.

Even the street lamp is still there. The cottages may look the same, but the surrounding landscape has changed virtually beyond recognition.

The medieval route from the Aldreth crossing to Ely went along the High Street. The view from the church tower is of brick farmhouses and brick cottages with picket fences.

This fine street is part of a local conservation area. It used to be called Canhold Lane. On the left, No 5, the house with the centre gable and timber frame, is 16th-century.

At the time of this photograph, traffic was not excluded from this street. A delivery van stands beside the Olde Pork Pie Shoppe of Dickinson and Morris.

In 1910, the section from North Pier round the Metropole to Cocker Street was widened; the work was completed in time for Easter 1911.

This building, the School Science Block, however, is on the Glapthorn Road beyond New Street and dates from 1914. It is a distinguished Jacobean styled structure complete with an onion domed cupola.

Alford is a most attractive small market town on the eastern edge of The Wolds, noted for its thatched Manor House in West Street, a 16th-century hall house with crosswings, all encased in brick in 1661

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

The 17th-century Bull pub (centre left) is still there, as is the Town Hall, but two banks now stand along that side of the street.

Here we see unsaddled horses being led down the street. Could they be going to a Tattersalls sale?

Though the old man could be delivering milk, yokes were also used for carrying all manner of things up the steep streets.

On the other side of the street is the Hitchin Dairy, and the draper nearest the camera is Hawkins.

It has quaint streets, a promenade, cliffs and a harbour, together with a fine old church.

By the 1950s cars were already a problem on the streets of Lyme, because of the lack of parking spaces. Present-day Lyme bans traffic from the sea front.

The colonnaded street behind, part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act scheme, is an elegant piece of Georgian town planning.

Facing the churchyard on the north side of Church Street is the oldest building in the King's School, built just before 1528 as a chantry school.

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman