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This view looks towards Matlock bridge, and tells of a time when local straw-hatted local people could stand in the middle of the street to have a leisurely conservation.

Part of Church Street was destroyed in an air raid in 1941, but misguided development and unrestricted traffic growth have since done far more damage to the townscape than German bombs.

Fore Street, leading into the A350 Trowbridge Road, is now a very busy road in and out of town.

In the distance, glimpsed on the right on the corner of King Street, is the former forge, now a private house. Opposite, the Oast Garage opened in the mid 1950s.

Note the narrow walled fields leading off from the village street, which echo medieval strip cultivation. In the background is the Lose Hill-Back Tor ridge.

Bala`s elegant main street is lined with trees and is unusually broad. This traditional market town was famous for its stocking fairs.

East Budleigh's main street has changed little since this photograph was taken at the outbreak of the Great War.

It prospered thanks to coal mining, and packhorses carried the coal down the street to the Fosse Way. Nowadays it is a prosperous commuting area, and modern semis punctuate the old stone cottages.

To the west of Castor lies Ermine Street, a Roman road; excavations have shown that the village is built over a large Roman estate.

King Street became one-way for outbound traffic in 1994. Grey Friars Café (left) was built in 1889 as Cocoa Rooms by the Countess of Zetland, a staunch advocate of temperance.

From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street. The buildings on the right replace medieval market place encroachment.

Union Street slopes steeply down to the sea front and its shops are a delight for browsing.

This view down St Giles Street has the Guildhall tower in the distance and the 1938 Co-op on the right, a building in Art Deco style.

The King's Arms in Desborough High Street continues to trade as a pub, but the New Inn next to it was demolished in the 1970s to make way for the new A6.

The war memorial is of an unusual octagonal design and beyond is the, now traffic-choked, High Street.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian; in those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other.

This rural lane is now unrecognisable, being a tarmac road leading to a car park, the library and a council estate, although the church with its broach spire and the High Street houses on the skyline remain

It is hard to imagine the crowded streets of Plymouth only a few miles away.

The main street has the air of a once- prosperous community.

Though rather cluttered, this photograph of the street does allow you a distant glimpse of the clock tower at the far end.

Built in 1906, this was the town's library until 1935, when new premises were completed in Duke Street.

A view of one of the city's best narrow medieval streets, lined with tall, overhanging shops and houses.

A Pickfords lorry is fighting its way along the narrow street, possibly heading for the Military Tailors in the left foreground, or to the Servicemen's Hostel next door.

This is long before the by-pass was built, but nevertheless the children are free to play by the memorial in the street, as there is so little traffic.