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The Apex stands in the fork of the junction between the High Street and Church Street, both of which lead down to old landing stages on the Great Ouse. Today, little has changed.

This street trading woman is offering potatoes from her basket.

Off London Street, just before the King's Head, Dene Road is seen here dropping into London Street at the corner beside the King's Head. The thatched cottage on the left still stands.

E M Mumford, on the corner of the High Street and the Market Square, displayed enamel trade signs on its gable end when this photograph was taken in the mid 1950s.

One of the larger villages of Sussex, Billingshurst may get its name from the Saxon 'Billings', or perhaps from the Roman engineer Belinus who was responsible for Stane Street, the Roman road linking

Small shops on the other side of the street sell Lyons cakes, Woodbines, and Walls ice cream. We can see the sign of the Barley Mow, which is set back from the street.

Seen from Lower High Street, this was the main A30 through the town and a busy stop for buses and coaches.

The early 19th-century Bell Hotel dominates this lively street scene, with its vital interaction of stalls, traffic and people, now so often lost in the bromide world of pedestrianisation.

Petham is a small village set in a valley just off the Roman Stane Street that runs from Canterbury to Lympne. There are remains of entrenchments here, constructed during the Roman invasion.

This view was taken from the iron bridge, and shows the backs of various High Street and Moulsham Street properties. Some of them had their own landing stages.

A RAC or AA motorcycle rider, without his motorbike, is walking past a row of Elizabethan houses in Friday Street. Henley, with its medieval street plan, has over 300 listed buildings.

On the right is Boots the Chemist's first shop in Pelham Street, opened in 1892. This was Jesse Boot's finest shop to date.

The town retains its narrow and cramped medieval streets. Fore Street is bounded by the fine parish church, built of yellow Pentewan stone.

Almost every decade saw the construction of a new city landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City

Almost every decade saw the construction of a new city landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City

Originally called Dunstable Street, there is no available record of the reason for the change of name apart from the coincidence of the accession to the throne of King George V.

The street was developed during the 1830s as the town grew in response to the construction of the harbour for the export of coal.

In one of Helston's principal streets, we see on the right a characteristic gutter channel with running water.

The wealthy Butchers' Guild once had a guildhall in this street; it was demolished in the 19th century.

The street known as The Cross continues from Worcester's High Street. It was here that Elizabeth I was greeted as she entered the city in 1574.

Taken from the abbey roof, this photograph shows the 15th-century market cross in the centre, situated at the north end of the High Street.

In the 16th century, the area round the churchyard was the commercial centre of Alcester; it included Butter Street, which borders two sides of the churchyard.

Like Bridge Street, this is now pedestrianised. Rodwell's the solicitor's, on the left, has been lowered to two storeys.

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.