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The street elevations show multiple bays with doorways with Gibbs' surrounds.

A deserted street funnels into the town centre: Sunday morning perhaps?

Not to be outdone, the chemist directly across the street proclaims that his establishment is the largest in the world.

During the Edwardian era Coney Street was the place for fashionable shopping.

Another view of the dusty, un-made road surface of the High Street which carried so much traffic at the start of the century, together with the intrusive early telegraph poles which, sentinel-like, dwarf

Here on Main Street the Institute still provides recreation facilities for the village. A foundation stone for it was laid in July 1909.

Lining the centre of the street are the town's stocks, market cross, fish slab and whipping post; the lamp behind was erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.

By the 1960s, the increase in motor cars started to cause problems in the narrow streets of Kidderminster, though the dreaded yellow lines had yet to appear.

This view shows Bridge Street on the north bank of the Kennet and Avon canal.

Note the man just leaving the village shop on the right, and the complete absence of traffic in the village street.

The Guinness clock at the top of Old Town Street was a popular rendezvous. It stood where the southern end of Drake's Circus shopping centre now stands.

Here we see the main street, with the sign of the Home and Colonial Stores prominent on the left and Universal Suppliers on the right.

Its streets, North, South, East and West, follow the pattern laid down by the Romans.

Here the River Somer runs along the middle of the High Street, flowing over small weirs known as 'flashes'. It emerges from under the Island in the Square and runs down to Radstock.

The building advertising 'restaurant' and 'confectionery' which spans the corner into Palmer Street was the old Co-operative.

The Town Hall, in Church Street, was designed by John Lowe and erected during 1880-81 on the site of the old cockpit.

There is an interesting diversity of shops, from a plumber's to the Cocoa Rooms - this has always been Preston's main shopping street.

Jockeys and grooms crowd the streets'.

Some historians have suggested that the town is Roman in origin, given its straight streets and regular layout.

The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the

Despite its fame, Gold Hill remains one of the most beautiful streets in England.

Many of the shops in the High Street are re-fronted timber-framed buildings.

There are some fine Georgian buildings along Market Street, including the Black Bull Hotel, on the left.

Characterised by pointed arches and fine stonework, the old gate is also renowned for its statue of George III gazing down the High Street, dressed as a Roman and wearing a toga.