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In Nether Stowey, you are in Samuel Taylor Coleridge country: he rented a cottage in Lime Street from 1796; whilst here, he wrote 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan', the latter famously interrupted

The seaward end of Broad Street was once the hub of Lyme Regis with its old Custom House, until a devastating fire in 1844.

Hodges Garage (in the distance, behind the bus entering Market Square) has since been demolished, and the Castle Hotel (by the street lamp on the right) has also closed.

A busy late morning scene in Colchester's High Street at the turn of the century.The Town Hall, which dominates this view, was not completed until 1902.The High Street lies along the central axis

Further 'up street' we now meet the junction of Westgate with Chaloner Street, which leads off to the right.

Cockburn Street twists and climbs up to the High Street. On the right, the famous crown spire of St Giles's Church can be seen above the rooftops.

The narrow ancient streets of Harlech, a town that sprang up to serve the stronghold, have changed little over the years, as is shown by this picture of the High Street.

This photograph was taken looking north up the High Street. To the left is Market Street, now pedestrianised, to the right is Blenheim Road, and behind the photographer is the park.

Here we see the 13th-century Buddle Bridge (centre) and the buildings of Bridge Street which crossed it until demolitions for road widening in 1913.

This view down Silver Street, widened here at the junction with Gold Street in the 1930s, looks towards Dalkieth Place.

Pound Street continues south-west from Hiugh Street; it is more cottagey, apart from two grander houses on the left. The street is little altered, apart from more formal pavements and roadway.

This view looks along the north side of Market Square past the war memorial into Cambridge Street on the left of the Round House and the High Street to its right.

As we turn our back on the Market Square, High Street runs westward to Sheaf Street.

This view down Silver Street, widened here at the junction with Gold Street in the 1930s, looks towards Dalkieth Place.

Lord Street was built as a boulevard shopping street with fine canopied pavements - a place to see and be seen - and it is still an aspirational goal for many national retail chain stores.

The local Board of Health had put their foot down over the amount of debris that the market was depositing in the High Street every Friday. It was February 1880 when the new site opened.

At the town centre, then as now, was the Market Square, mostly lying on the east side of the main street.

The brick-built Congregational church on the corner of Union Street and King Street was opened in 1912 and still flourishes, now as the United Reformed Church.

Thompson Street was the most important link from Barry Docks to Holton Road.

This view looks west along Church Street. The building on the left was the old grammar school, and is now a solicitor's office.

An early experiment using water-carts to damp down the streets found that it took 7,000 gallons to water one mile of street, 18 feet in width, at a cost of 8s 4d per mile.

Because Egremont was a newly-laid-out town, the streets were mostly straight and wide. King Street ran parallel to the Promenade, and was a very busy thoroughfare.

Cambridge Street, misleadingly, does not head for Cambridge, and was formerly Bakers Lane. It is now a one-way street - the far end was demolished for the inner relief road.

Church Street, seen here from the end of Main Street, with the High Street meeting it from the left, leads past the parish church of All Saints, one of Nottinghamshire's best parish churches.