Search Results

A later view of St Ann's Gate, with motor cars in evidence in the street scene—now, the gate can be used by pedestrians only.

The older part is more interesting and certainly more picturesque, with its streets of quaint old buildings clinging to the banks of the Hamble.

Bangor's main street runs between the station and the harbour, and today is partly pedestrianised. It is shown here crowded with shoppers and an early car.

The buildings in the foreground, including the Duke's Head on the right, are in Butts Road, while Olsen's Stores (left) and those nearer the town are in the High Street.

When Leeds town hall was opened by Queen Victoria, the streets were lined with palm trees and triumphal arches.

It would be a few years on before electric street-trams would link Headingley with Leeds city centre.

The Heads of the Valleys Road had not been built when this picture was taken, as it shows the A465 old Merthyr road leading into King Street, Brynmawr.

Beyond the bank with its pyramid-roofed tower are the elegant terra cotta and brick buildings flanking the entrance to Queen Victoria Street.

Across the cobbled street only the building for the then Reading Gas Company survives, central Reading's only World War II bomb having hit the area beyond.

Situated in the Dutch Quarter, where Flemings settled, Stockwell Street still has some good medieval houses.The gabled Stockwell Arms seen opposite still exists—in 1866 the bellringers of St Peter's

A car passes up the High Street, while a horse-drawn conveyance comes down the hill.Wright's Garage, on the right, emphasises that shortly after the First World War the internal combustion engine had

The three ugly new traffic signs and modern street lights are also a sign of the times.

This picture gives some idea of the quality and variety of the buildings which lined the High Street in the 1950s.

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Aylesbury Road has probably the best run of historic buildings in any of Wendover's streets. Some good Georgian fronts hide timber-framed earlier buildings.

Sad to relate, this restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development

A lady in traditional dress poses with her pannier donkey in Higher Market Street, East Looe, outside the old 16th-century guildhall.

This Battenhall street is typical of late Victorian/Edwardian housing intended for the 'lower middle classes'.

Sporting their red uniforms, the bootblack boys were a familiar sight on the streets of London. The Ragged Schools, Saffron Hill, set up the first society, and nine others followed.

This view looks from St Helen's Church, west across the rooftops, to Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church and Holy Trinity Church in Kilwardby Street.

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing

This view shows the lower reach of the High Street looking towards Canongate. The building immediately behind the lamp standard is known as John Knox's house.

This notable shopping street leads out of the market place towards the river. The awnings are up so it must be a sweltering summer's day.

Hotels and lodging houses sprang up in the narrow streets radiating out from the church square.