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The street lamp in this picture is less decorative than the one in the earlier view.

Then as now, though, the Lower High Street is a bustling place of small shops and independent businesses.

The broad High Street seethes with bargain hunters in search of, well, anything from five pounds of braising steak to 'a genuine antique Victorian commode in walnut with inlaid stringing.

In the central High Street stands the Prince of Wales (left), which features the royal plume of feathers on its sign - Duchy of Cornwall lands stretch westwards around Dorchester.

This close-up of Bridge Street gives a clear picture of the Rows for which Chester is so famous.

The black and white building at the dar side of the street is the Victoria Jubilee Hall, erected in 1887; today it also has a clock to celebrate another jubilee, that of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.

In the street is the tourist car Magpie (left), owned by C R Good of the Richmond Garage.

We are looking eastwards down Main Street from Chideock House (left) and what is now the Old Post Office (right). It was run by Charles Gibbs and his daughter Hilda.

When Frith's photographer visited Kings Langley in the 1890s, cattle wandered freely along the High Street; but by 1955, the motor car was firmly established as king of the road.

This photograph was taken from the village hall looking towards the Street. The man on the left is standing in front of Leys, a medieval hall-house with a jettied wing.

This view looks north along the High Street past the now 'improved' junction with West Lane.

The cottages down Abbey Street to the left of the memorial have gone, and the United Counties Bus Company now have a garage there.

This typical High Street view could be of any village in the north-east. This is the 1950s version of today's modern superstore, where you can buy everything from ice cream to petrol.

This area was originally the market place, with streets now lost to the sea running parallel on the right. The mock-timber building on the left is the Mill Inn.

A row of houses was built on the old road to Lampeter and another on the street to the church (visible on the right).

The approach to the church is from Sheep Street, along a gravelled tree-lined avenue through memorial gates.

This view looks along one of the best streets in Woodford Halse with mainly stone houses and the dominating Moravian Church of 1906.

Frith's photographer has focussed on the north side of the street with its interesting variety of stone cottages, while opposite, out of view, are modern 1960s houses which clearly did not grab his attention

The north side of High Street, on the right, has some dignified late 18th- and early 19th-century three-storey houses, including the Bell and the Chequers Hotels.

Clovelly clings to a cliff, and its street is a steep, cobbled flight of steps. Villagers still use donkeys and sleds to carry goods to and from their cottages and the tiny harbour far below.

They look like ragged street urchins in their rumpled clothes and battered boots, and were probably bought their penny treats in return for posing for the photographer.

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

This is a detail of the frontage of 34 West Street, which was the 'Bridport News' office and West Dorset Printing Works in 1909.

Looking north into the continuation of the High Street, the Cock pub on the left survives while on the right is the 1886 Congregational Chapel, an Early English Gothic style front flanked by pinnacled