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This street's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'cepin', meaning a 'place of trade', and here its shops include opticians, tobacconists, dry cleaners, book and toy shops and the Crusty Loaf bakers with its

Here we are looking down the High Street, with Smith's chemist's shop – still at this period with only one large window – on the right.

Today it is a busy commuter route, but in 1922 children could play on the street, and the traffic offered very little respect to the rules of the road.

This was one of the principal shopping streets of the town, though the Methodist New Connection chapel and the Salvation Army Hall were also along here.

Northumberland Street runs along the spine of the spur on which the town is built. After the harbour had become unusable, a number of warehouses and granaries were redeveloped.

This vast Victorian hotel, with its half-timbered detail, is a feature of the High Street.

We end this chapter in St Peter Street, which originally led to the old wooden bridge replaced by the present one further west.

It is an ancient town with a medieval layout and a wide gently curving High Street, now mainly pedestrianised.

The willows have gone or been replaced, and there is more building in the plots behind the High Street on the left, but the scene is still just as tranquil.

This inn stands in the centre of the village by the side of the main London to Worthing main road on the route of Stane Street.

Subsequently, a road was built linking The Strand with the end of High Street. The raised bank followed the Taw from Castle Quay and turned right to follow the Yeo to Braunton Bridge.

It tapped the water from the Burgess Well (now under Fairfield Road car park) and released it in an open channel down the High Street.

This photograph was probably taken from a window in one of the shops on St James' Street. In the foreground is the Old Red Lion.

The other two buildings went when Crendon Street was rebuilt and widened in the 1930s.

Silver Street, between it and the Bedford Palace, is now a pedestrianised shopping precinct.

This view captures some of the domestic feel of the lower High Street beyond the shops nearer Market Square.

The High Street is a long one on the main Aylesbury to Buckingham road.

A picturesque collection of cottages and shops line the spacious main street of this Georgian coaching town, as we look towards the triangular Bowling Green, while the photographer's activities attract

This view looks south towards London, along the narrow stretch of Ermine Street or the Old North Road, with its overhanging 17th-century houses and gables.

Buchanan Street was a great place to eat out, with several top restaurants including Queen's at number 70 and Ferguson & Forrester at number 36.

The town, now mercifully by-passed, has a remarkably complete High Street, considering the volume of traffic that used to choke it en route to the coast.

In Belvoir Street in 1949, Cowlings Record Shop was much frequented by Leicester's youth, who could sit in booths and hear the records before deciding whether or not to buy.

The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.

This view of Ombersley's main street gives an idea of the range of facilities in the village.