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The leafy High Street rises away from the village to become the main road to Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

The camera looks east down the High Street, which opens onto Church Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth's origins lay in its medieval weekly market and annual fair.

Until the A6 was pushed between the two villages, it made its way via their narrow rather tortuous streets. At the end of the 20th century, unfortunate changes were inflicted on this view.

South Luffenham on the river Thater is a 7th-century Saxon settlement with North Luffenham, now adjacent to the A6121 Uppingham to Stamford road to the north, an attractive village of narrow streets and

However, that King Charles House is round the corner on New Street. But it does bear the same date - 1577 - so perhaps both were part of the same building.

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

The parade of shops shown here was added to the infrastructure when it became obvious that the existing retail function based on the High Street could not cope with demand and was too far away from the

The only real change today is that the brick building just to the right of the two cars, which was home to a butcher's shop, was demolished in the early 1970s to widen the entrance to Water Street

Note the painted wooden Manchester Warehouse Co. sign under the chimneys on the left, the ladder against the building further up the street, and the Royal Gatehouse Hotel carriage on the right

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

The shoes were made just round the corner in Market Street until the 1930s.

The only real change today is that the brick building just to the right of the two cars, which was home to a butcher's shop, was demolished in the early 1970s to widen the entrance to Water Street.

This unusual view looks north-west from the tower of St Mary Magdalene's church across the pantiled and slate roofs of the town; the streets and lanes are mostly as laid out by Alexander, Bishop

The name 'Finkle' comes from a Viking word meaning 'angle' or 'corner', and this less than straight street has not changed its line since those times.

The first is down Market Street. The Baptist church was built early in the19th century; it was attached to a farmhouse, the tile-hung building to the right.

This view of the High Street, looking south from the Station Road crossroads, changed dramatically when the M23 and M25 by-passed the town; much has been pedestrianised and demolished.

The relatively narrow main street carried heavy traffic to Nottingham, the north, and the east coast.

This follows the course of the old Roman road from London to Chichester, called Stane Street, which is nowadays the busy A24 road from London to Worthing.

Rye is rich in medieval houses and quaint streets; the Landgate is the only surviving town gate of the original four; dating from 1329 or 1381, it had a portcullis and a drawbridge, and is a most imposing

Photographed before its conversion to a one-way system, the High Street appears a quiet market town thoroughfare.

Moving away from the seaside, via Southend High Street, the Civic Centre is to be found in Victoria Avenue.

with builders materials, Charles Love & Son's ironmongery and radio/TV engineer's (right), Lisles petrol station (near right), and further down the road, car sales showrooms as well as the usual high street

A coin of Emperor Constantine, c337AD, was found on the site close to the line of the old Akeman Street and its crossing with the Icknield Way.

This street scene has not changed very much except for the names of the occupants.