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Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park by 1890.

To the left of The Swan was the tap room, and further up the street are several carts and an assortment of pedestrians. The road surface improved and traffic increased in the intervening years.

The NatWest Bank now occupies the left-hand corner building, whilst on the right the street was completely redeveloped in the 1980s with estate agents' offices and Lloyds Bank.

Here we are looking along Church Street towards the 13th-century tower of St Eadburg's Church.

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.

This main street runs parallel to the shore, and displays many of the late 19th-century shops that accompanied its development as a resort during that period.

This small south Norfolk village runs along a single street. The high pitch of the roof on the house to the right suggests that it may originally have been of thatch.

The buildings on the right-hand side of the street have mainly Georgian frontages.

Dunster's High Street was built wide to accommodate markets, and at this point it once held a row of shambles, or butcher's shops, in the middle.

West Street 1930 This town was a considerable port in the middle ages, but the silting up of its ancient harbour led to a decline in trade.

Where better to begin an exploration of Taunton town than in Fore Street, very much the centre of this ancient Borough.

this pleasant view looks down the main street from the path beside the church. On the left-hand side of the road we can see the Ship inn, and also a sign for Regent petrol.

On the other side of the street, well-known shoe retailers Freeman, Hardy and Willis announce the best bargains since the beginning of the Great War.

Staines High Street has been largely rebuilt since this picture was taken. The building in the centre, just to the left of the lamp standard, is the Staines Iron Works.

Washington's village street was formerly an ancient road that ran along the greensand ridge.

Pevsner described Netley as 'a Victorian period piece;' its streets of neat family villas and rows of renovated terraced cottages overlooking Southampton Water are certainly striking.

In this view from the High Street, a man sits under the awning outside the Rainham and District Co-operative Society shop, opposite the wine merchant's shop of J Owen Carter.

It stands above a wide stretch of the Maplin Sands and the fingering estuarine channels of the River Roach.This view looks along the quiet High Street.

The World War II air raid shelters had not long been removed from the middle of the street; at the end of the vista the old Plume of Feathers coaching inn was demolished a decade later.

The architect, G E Street, died just before the building's completion.

The long, broad street winds through this attractive market town, that sits in the valley of the River Culm alongside the busy M5 motorway.

Its predecessor was St Edith's - a house of Ursuline Sisters at the southern end of the High Street. They celebrated Mass there from 1910 until they left the town three years later.

It remains today, painted an eye-catching green and yellow, at the busy junction at the top of Broad Street, whilst the Wheel public house (left) was demolished in 1980 to make way for flats.

The side against the High Street has the Duke's coat of arms in the pediment. Opposite is the 16th-century Wagon and Horses, in whose yard the livestock market used to be held.