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Market Deeping has been fortunate in that it has kept most of its attractive stone buildings, and this street is still much the same today.

This photograph was taken looking up the steep High Street which leads up from the river, with the footpath to nearby Whitby leading off to the right.

This is Fore Street, which was built wide to accommodate fairs and markets.

This is the town's main street from Telford's bridge, looking towards the mid 18th-century church designed by E & T Woodward.

This is a busy scene, with milk churns on one side of the street and casks of ale on the other (right). Note the various horse-drawn vehicles.

This scene remains virtually unchanged today, but it has been cut off from the High Street by an ugly ring road.

Some attractive red brick houses lining the High Street are a reminder that Nettlebed was a major brick-making centre - the industry dates back to the 14th century.

Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs behind the main street

A flower bed has been added, and the ornate street lamp has been replaced by a very ordinary one.

Queen Street on the right, built in 1838, leads to the churchyard. The tall building (centre) with carved bargeboards, dormer windows, ridge tiles and 'Tudor' chimneys was Boots.

The Carlton Hotel with its cupola (right) dominated the High Street. It was demolished in 1977 and replaced by Boots.

At the end of the street is Gardener's, the gents' outfitter's. On the right is the Oddfellows Office, here since 1933, and Barker's, fishmongers since 1946.

The viaduct which carries the main Sheffield-Leeds railway line dominates this view of the High Street of the South Yorkshire town of Denby Dale.

This picture was taken only a couple of years after the introduction of electric street trams. The tramway had a relatively short life-span - it was closed in 1926.

Just east of the village the peace is disrupted by Watling Street's successor, the busy M1 motorway.

Manor Road joins the High Street by the pyramid roofed mid-19th century house, The Forge, in the distance. To the right, is a small wing with the date 1852 over a Gothic-style stone window.

Just beyond the hotel a cyclist can be seen passing a casual conversation between a pedestrian and the driver of the car coming into the street.

Every conceivable example of architecture is visible here in the gently rising street—including the stone and brick Norton Arms in the foreground, the half-timbered building beyond it, and the Gothic-style

Stramongate is the main approach road into Kendal from the north-east, and means 'the street of the straw men'. St George's Church is in the background.

Kington was also once described as having a 'maze of narrow streets … where too many of the old houses have been refronted, but still have the attraction of a wildly irregular skyline'.

The Market House was built of granite in 1839-40 for the sale of meat, poultry and butter, and the four carved ox heads above the pillars (left) are a notable feature of the street frontage.

The photographer was positioned on Moor Street looking down towards the Town Gate.

Pier Hill can be seen rising behind the foreshore buildings with the High Street stretching north from The Royal Hotel.

Few streets still follow their original medieval plans, though not all have been lost since 1945. Butcher Row went long ago.