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Grange Road was one of the main shopping streets in Birkenhead, and was very popular. The street is now pedestrianised, and with St John's Pavement in its centre is still a popular shopping area.

By 1955 both Russell Street and George Street had become one way, as the road signs indicate.

We are looking eastwards along Manor Street. The three-storey building to the left is the Nag's Head Inn, and buildings with the finial on top are the Manor Street School.

Tilehouse Street, from the junction with Sun Street in 1955. The weather-boarded building on the right is Barham's gunsmiths, closed down after legislation destroyed its viability.

This is just one of the many narrow streets that are so characteristic of St Ives.

George Smith's Town Hall of 1830, which with its Ionic columns and Tuscan pillars bears a remarkable resemblance to the Corn Exchange at Bishop's Stortford and dominates St Peter's Street and its avenue

Church Street is busy with shoppers and shopkeepers. Peeping above the town's rooftops is the tower of St Michael the Archangel, perhaps the finest of Hampshire's Perpendicular parish churches.

The National Provincial Bank, a familiar sight in most High Streets until the company's closure in the 1960s, can be seen further down the street (centre left).

In the small streets and alleyways off South Street, the old rope-walks can still be seen. Much of the cordage for Royal Navy vessels was produced in and around Bridport.

Beyond the last building in Poultry, with its colonnade over the pavement, is Victoria Street, with its grand Victorian palazzos of commerce.

This view shows the High Street just before the development of the 1960s, when about 200 new houses were built off the High Street behind the trees.

The hotels and restaurants in the High Street offered a welcome break to travellers, who could also fill up their tanks with petrol from the single petrol pump at the garage.

Here we see the junctions of South Street and Union Street. The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with most of such things, it came complete with captured Russian cannon.

We are at the top of Main Street, looking back down through the village from the bus station.

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.

Gold Street was a one-way street in the 1950s, with traffic beginning to increase as the motor car became more popular.

The gabled Renaissance-style Town Hall, built on the corner of Pinstone Street and Surrey Street, was designed by E W Mountford and completed in 1896; its official opening by Queen Victoria took place

The Sanctuary is now well surfaced to accomodate motor traffic, and a 'Keep Left' notice has been fixed to the lamp-post at the end of Queen Victoria Street.

Bus shelters, one with a shopper waiting, occupy Tudor Square, once called Bally Green, at the end of Market Street, which is Dalton's main shopping street.

Bridge Street is still one of the narrowest main roads in Dorset.

Here we see the intense advertising from Wildings Limited, Clothiers - their department store still has a place on the opposite side of Commercial Street.

A convoy of horse-trams trundle along Renfield Street. Within a year, electric street trams would be running, and the horse-trams were phased out.

A contemporary guidebook suggests that in Regent Street were to be found 'pedestrians of every class, from the fashionable lounger to the street Arab; from the duchess to the work-girl; ... the bewigged

This imposing archway led up a flight of steps to another of Kendal's famous yards; this one lies off the main street, Highgate.