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St James' Church at Kingston, in effect the Scott family chapel of the Earls of Eldon from Encombe House, viewed looking southwards from cottages in South Street.

Here the photographer looks downhill along High Street from the Church Street/Heathfield Road junction past Ye King's Head, then a commercial hotel - its ground floor was altered in the 1890s.

A busy scene looking down towards the High Street.

The street had many small inns for the market customers, built on plots in yards behind the street.

This photograph was taken further up the street from No C537055. The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

The tram lines and the traffic have long disappeared, and now Abington Street is pedestrianised.

This is the main shopping street through Woodhall Spa. There was a railway crossing across the street in the distance.

This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

Yorkshire Street was one of the main shopping streets in the town. Along here could be found McDonnell's store, which was the place to go for fresh Irish eggs and home-cured Irish ham.

As we turn right along Cornmarket Street, the most striking building amid the shops is the rough-hewn late Anglo-Saxon tower of St Michael's Church, with its two tiers of paired belfry windows.

Owing its rapid development to the Industrial Revolution, the town's streets and buildings tended to be functional rather than attractive.

The street had many small inns for the market customers, built on plots in yards behind the street.

This relatively tranquil view of the Ewell Road looks towards the cross roads and the foot of the High Street from the forecourt of the imposing showroom and garage of Cheam Motors.

The Shambles connects Market Street with Silver Street. It was the site of the medieval market, and 'shambles' was the common name associated with meat trading.

Once Gainsborough was a busy port on the river Trent, and Bridge Street runs parallel to the river.

This street, now pedestrianised, was a busy part of the A30 trunk road. It was widened a century ago to cope with the increasing traffic.

Today, Union Street is pedestrianised and home to many clothes shops and some antique shops. The occasional soldier can still be seen marching down the street.

Replacing a medieval church that lay beyond the walled town's north gate, now commemorated by the street's name of Northgate Street, this church by Manners was started in 1835 in an early inaccurate Gothic

Stockton was granted its market charter by Bishop Bek in 1310, but until the 1840s it consisted of little more than the High Street, a few side streets, and a quayside railhead for Stockton & Darlington

The vast bulk of the Cathedral soars above the city, and St Peter's Street and the High Street are seen bedecked in flags and bunting to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second.

Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west. There are several entrances to the park at Streetly, most for pedestrians only.

One local resident of Kettering recalls visiting Woodcock's department store on the corner of Newland Street and Montagu Street as a child in the 1920s and 30s.

This view is taken further down West Street, with the churchyard on the left and the boundary walls of the Victorian Baptist Church on the right.

East of the High Street and parallel to it, Silver Street leads us out of the market place. On the left next to 'Phipps' is 'The Rising Sun', a Jacobean styled extravaganza of 1892.