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Here we see a fine display of weatherboarding along the empty and dusty main street. The faded pub sign is for the Bull Inn.

Holiday makers walk the high street, and a coach and four is about to pull up outside the Cors-y-Cedol Hotel, one of the resort's many hotels.

This photograph shows the deserted High Street on a day of bright sunlight, with the summit of Pen Trum-gwr looming ahead, and the modest Edwards Commercial Hotel and Boarding House on the left.

The elongated Venetian window added a continental look to the street. The building is now demolished.

The aroma of freshly-ground coffee used to drift down this street in the heart of the city. Collinson's Café, above John Smith's on the left, also offered a three-piece orchestra.

Not much more than St James's Street is left of Dunwich, once the seat of the Saxon king of East Anglia, and once one of the greatest and most prosperous ports in the country.

At the opposite end of the High Street, the Tring Road climbs out of Wendover past this delightful range of early 17th-century timber-framed and thatched cottages.

An inquisitive dog with a docked tail keeps an attentive eye on proceedings further down the street.

Many a traveller must have prayed for a street this clear when they were sitting in one of the notorious traffic jams from which Honiton suffered before the bypass was opened in 1966.

Electric street tramcars had been introduced in 1899; in this picture we have a selection of single-deckers and open-top double-deckers.

This picture was taken from the junction with Bridge Street. Just getting into the picture on the right is the recently completed Becketts Bank.

This is now the Magistrates' Court, and it stands on the corner of Friargate and Clifford Street. It is a rather dark, forbidding-looking structure, perhaps built that way to intimidate wrong-doers!

Many of the buildings in Southampton's famous High Street were destroyed dur- ing the Second World War, more than 30 years after this photograph was taken.

The High Street, across the Witham via Town Bridge rebuilt in 1913, presents a mainly late Georgian character with mostly three-storey frontages to the pavement edge, but many of these conceal earlier

The narrow, precipitous street is pedestrianised and thronged with toiling tourists in summer. Mr Haigh's Toy and Fancy Repository on the left is now a gift and games shop: a kind of continuity.

In its lee is the old Roman road, Ermine Street, while at its foot, on the spring line, are a line of villages, mostly built from the local limestone.

The Roman road of Stane Street bisects the village of Billingshurst. The shop of W J Barnes (on the left) stands on the causeway; it was formerly the old family shop of Joseph Luxford, a carrier.

Here we have another view of Prince's Corner on the right, with a glimpse of the High Street beyond the pseudo-timbering of The King's Arms (now The Fallow and Firkin).

Church Street, beyond Fishergate and the Town Hall, was a busy shopping area for the Fylde country all around.

Less simple to fathom are some of the village street names. The lane in the centre of the village that crosses the bridge is called 'Bow Wow', while not far off is another named 'Upper Up'.

In the street the carriages ply their trade, while the postman delivers letters.

The building to the left of Cross Street is still a greengrocer's.

This was the thatched lodge gate from the village street to the Hall. It dates from the 1840s, when Sir Henry Bunbury created the park around the Hall.

A fascinating picture of a suburban street. On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.