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In 1836 it became the premises of the wine merchant William Cunnington, and extensive cellars run under the road and the buildings on the opposite side of the street.

The old town, spread picturesquely round part of Mount's Bay, has delightfully narrow streets that ascend the hill from the fine esplanade at the edge of the sea.

This is a detail of the frontage of 34 West Street, which was the `Bridport News` office and West Dorset Printing Works in 1909.

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.

This is taken from the north end of the Green, looking south towards Hall Street, showing the wide expanse of the Green, where fairs are still held.

This is one of Lancaster's main shopping streets. Note the radio shop on the right—in country districts, the radio, with its BBC Home and Light programmes, helped people to keep in touch.

At the other end of Frimley High Street, we cross the River Blackwater, which is the boundary between Surrey and Hampshire.

A delivery boy rests with his bicycle between rounds on the right, while down the street a policeman looks out for traffic to direct.

Billingshurst is a Roman settlement on Stane Street. St Mary's church, built on a mound with access to the churchyard via a causeway, is shown in the photograph, and has Roman bricks in the walls.

On the right-hand side of the street stand flint-walled houses with brick dressings.

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

St Michael's House, the Victorian home of Mrs Brandham at No 7 Pound Street, became St Michael's Hotel.

Centre left is the combined police and fire station in Tower Street, referred to earlier. Note the six-storey tower.

Here we see the top of the High Street, which is little changed today.The porchway on the left belongs to the Moot Hall, which was the town hall until 1974 and is now open to the public.

The town was changing, and the old order was changing with it. 45 new residential roads were added to the street map in the 1920s.

Woolhall Street, beyond Everard's, marks the site of the medieval market Toll House and the later Wool Hall, which was demolished to create the street.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson was born here, and attended New Street Council School.

Visitors to the tourist attraction of Stockbridge enter downhill at either end of the High Street. Almost a mile long, it runs east-west, with narrow ribbons of houses on either side.

The awnings are out at the far end of the street to protect the stock in the shop windows from the summer sunshine, and in the foreground we can see frames for the awnings that have not been put up yet

Here, a little further north up High Street, we look west along Bedford Road. The late 19th-century town hall is on the left.

Going east from Market Place along Church Street, we reach the small square with the brown stone church on its north side, a curiously villagey one for a town.

The lane descends to Castle Street, from where this vies was taken; we see St Osyths, a good brick house of 1700 with earlier timber-framed ranges, and the farmhouse to the Prebendal.

In South Street, Shodfriars Hall is an echo of the four friaries established in the medieval town.

Gainsborough, an ancient market town, was also a busy river port; here we look up Silver Street, which led from the river wharves and warehouses to the market place.