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Note the Golden Leg just down from Brinsmead Pianos - what better place to sup some ale after a hard day's graft in Westgate Street.

Frogmore Street begins near the bank on the right, site of the medieval north gate. The pedestrians walking towards the camera are heading for the High Street and, no doubt, the market.

The next photographs follow the High Street from north to south.

The landmark Great Western Hotel of 1876, its curved façade created by Blessey in a fantastic French medieval style with Gothic window decoration, draws one's gaze into the commercial hubbub of the street

There is a Maserati car dealership at the end of the High Street.

Cobbled Church Street leads to the church of St Michael and All Angels - the parish boundaries once extended to Chorley. At the end of this street is the ancient base of a restored preaching cross.

Further up Castle Street and at its junction with Bristle Hill to the right and Elm Street on the left, the photographer is looking towards the great east window of the parish church.

This photograph was taken from the junction of the High Street with Bridge Street. The dominant buildings are of the early 1900s, complete with a fine set of chimney stacks.

The splendour of the Conservative Club building dominates the 'town' end of Castle Street, although the narrowness of the roadway belies its importance as the main road leading to London.

Here we look down East Street towards the Market Hall; Silver Street is beyond, and the church tower can be glimpsed to the right.

Traffic lights control the junction with the High Street, and the Hotel now boasts a car park.

The view down the street in 1950 is not greatly different from 50 years before, although a car has replaced the pony and trap.

The Co-operative Society erected their imposing building from the river edge fronting onto the High Street up towards the National Westminster Bank; the upper floor has classical windows with carving above

This view looks east past the much-reduced George pub, with Burton's facade beyond, to the junction of Cambridge Street at the left and High Street to the right of the Round House.

This street was once called Heol-y-Nant (Brook Street) from the brook which ran through Blaenavon.

Here we are at the junction of Cannon Street and the approach to the new London Bridge; the street was opened by King William IV in 1831, and named after him.

This part of Sunderland developed into the commercial and civic heart of the town following the opening of Fawcett Street Station by the North Eastern Railway.

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

This view looks to the north end of Silver Street and its junction with the High Street, the main Sleaford to Skegness Road.

Further north-east along the High Street, Frith's photographer now looks back in the Clapham Common direction past Cato Road (left).

We are looking south, with a good view of Yarm Town Hall, built in 1710 and standing in splendid isolation in the centre of the High Street.

A collection of almost classic cars parked on both sides of the street issues a warning of things to come in the small towns around Leicestershire.

It is an apparently exclusively male-dominated scene in this narrow thoroughfare just off the High Street, with the overhanging upper storeys of the George Inn partially concealing the gaping gateway

At the time when this photograph was taken, it was possible to hold a cattle market in the broad street of this sizeable village.