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This was the older of Whitby's two shopping streets. Puckrin's chemist's shop (the white building on the right) stood for a further forty years.

Bridge Street, looking east. Sweet jars are clearly visible in Furr's window. Three doors up is J B Crone, a furniture dealer; next door, W H Walker sells cycles.

The photographer has now moved west down the High Street, a superb long and wide street lined by timber-framed and brick houses - one of the best historic townscapes in Buckinghamshire.

Here we have a closer view of the quiet main street; note the sign of the Golden Cocker Café by the street lamp.

The street with the EWS (Emergency Water Supply) sign on the wall (the top edges of the letters are just visible bottom left in the Detail) is Shorey Street, which leads to the river.

This photograph was taken from outside the Market Hall looking down Blackburn Road towards its junction with Abbey Street.

The photographer is looking east from the top of High Street, where there is now a roundabout, with the churchyard walls and lime trees on the left. The wall and railings have now gone.

The TGWU building stands at the junction with Worcester Street. This was known as Coffee House Number Four before the union bought this building.

Now swamped by housing estates, the High Street was mainly pedestrianised. However, a substantial amount was demolished, and more is soon to go at the south end.

A street cleaner works below the church wall, while a boy seems interested in William Box's grocery, wine and spirit shop; two ladies approach Russell and Co's drapery shop next door.

The streets of London used to be thronged with beggars, confidence tricksters and street traders. Here we see a chair mender squatting in the passage outside the kitchen of a London house.

The streets of London used to be thronged with beggars, confidence tricksters and street traders. Here we see a chair mender squatting in the passage outside the kitchen of a London house.

This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.

The High Street runs along the mile long Roman road within the small market town.

Just horse-drawn traffic, a bicycle and one distant motor car are the only vehicles in the street.

A fascinating picture of a suburban street. On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.

The high street, known as The Street, was mostly Victorian in character, but has been rebuilt; some houses on the left beyond the single-storey shops went up in the 1960s.

This roof garden was placed on top of Harvey's, a five-storey department store of 1957 designed by Jellicoe and Partners and built behind a retained High Street frontage.

On the opposite side of East Street, beside the junction with Downes Street, a sign for the Soldiers Canteen and Recreation Room (right).

This view, looking south along High Street, has greatly changed: the thatched cottages have been demolished, and modern housing has been built on the right.

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

The fine, wide street has 19th-century houses on the left; on the right are commercial buildings, filling the ground floors of older timber-framed houses.

Here the photographer looks west along the High Street from the junction with Outwood Lane on the morning of a fox hunt - this type of scene was much favoured for Frith postcards.

This view captures well the disparate suburban nature of Cobham's High Street before we reach the most attractive River Hill and Mill Road, which stretch along the banks of the River Mole