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Founded by the Romans, where Watling Street bridged the Medway, Rochester has been important for nearly 2,000 years. The cathedral, founded in AD 604, is second only to Canterbury in age.

We are looking in the other direction, to the north end of the High Street. The parish church tower stands prominently on the right, with the war memorial with its white columns in front.

The banner across the street in the distance is for the annual art exhibition.

This view of the 1935 Silver Jubilee seat is taken from outside the King's Head on the A12, looking down the High Street.

A tram en route to Chester General station enters a passing loop; Eastgate Street was too narrow for double track to be laid.

Spencer's the stationer's beyond Finkle Street sold postcards, perhaps including Frith's!

Shoppers on Newgate Street in 1923 were seeing prices slowly returning their pre-war levels.

Apart from the section between Castlefields and Dale Street Basin in Manchester, the canal was abandoned in 1952, and Hollingworth Lake was finally given over to recreation and leisure activities.

Northenden Road was one of Sale's main streets for shops, along with Chapel Road, School Road and Washway Road.

Nowadays the by-passed winding High Street is again peaceful.

Here on the porte cochere, with the best view of the High Street, is the renowned Houghton Fishing Club's meeting room.

This street scene shows some fine red brick, tile-hung, ivy-clad houses with beautiful old chimneys, lining the left-hand side of the road.

This charming study shows the lower part of the High Street on a breezy summer's day.

A conspicuously clean- looking street scene with only the faintest trace of horses. Loveday & Sons, the jewellers, have now occupied their shop at Baddow Road corner for over a century.

The street lamp in this picture is less decorative than the one in the earlier view.

Also on Town Street was the Salvation Army, tithe cottages for the local clergy, and, grouped around the old Arcade, the post office, bank, bakers, florists and cobblers.

This 1883 church replaced the old Bell Chapel at the end of Town Street on the Green, which was becoming too small for the congregation.

Woburn Street enters Market Place from the west and has more vernacular houses and cottages along each side.

This imposing, ornate gateway once stood where the Strand becomes Fleet Street, and was erected in 1672 to a design by Wren.The effigies portray Stuart monarchs.

Townsend was an early name for this part of Kingswinford, which is at one end of the High Street, and thus the 'town's end'.

This interesting picture of the village street and the post office shows the village postman about to mount his bicycle.

As we look south down High Street we can see that many of the buildings survive today, including the dormered building on the far left.

This view of the unpaved main crossroads at High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old coaching inn, The

The western section of the High Street (viewed here from the forecourt of The Spread Eagle) is dominated by the clock tower built by Butler and Hedge in 1847-48.