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Where Victoria Street meets the High Street, we have a busy scene. The post office (second right) is well patronised.

The curved front of the Market Hall, visible behind Boots, was demolished in 1956 and replaced by a new building for Boots.

This view down Silver Street, widened here at the junction with Gold Street in the 1930s, looks towards Dalkieth Place.

This view looks towards the New Brig and Main Street.

After the Restoration, Aberdeen decided that a new Market Cross was needed, although it was 1686 before it was erected.

A central post office had been built in High Street in 1882-85, but in 1907 it was replaced by the present building in Wide Bargate which was soon extended to include the sorting office and the

At the bottom of the street on the left stands the New Griffin Hotel, an important landmark in this street.

Considered to be one of the finest boulevards in Europe, Princes Street was the place to shop and eat. Restaurants included a branch of Ferguson & Forrester, the Royal British, and Littlejohn's.

This view was taken at the top of the High Street. In the centre is the New Inn public house and tea gardens, formerly owned by Cobbs' Brewery.

Even further north along the east side, much has now gone, with the New Town's modern shopping centre reaching the old High Street proper; but some of the spaciousness in the distance remains.

Nowadays, virtually all we see in this tranquil Edwardian view of Crawley Green at the north end of the High Street has been swept away, although elements of the grassed area and a couple of trees survive

A view of two late-Victorian buildings facing each other across Queen Street.

Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

Originally a tree lined thoroughfare, Marlowes when it was developed in the early 1950s became the main shopping centre for the new town.

The New County Hotel, with RAC and AA signs outside, is prominent in this photograph. This used to be called the Ram Hotel. Again Raikes' house, 38 Southgate Street, stands out.

In 1881, this new museum, designed by Horace Cheston, was built in the High Street.

The top of the High Street was known officially as Devonshire Place, but the locals always called it Devonshire Square, even though it only had three sides.

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.

Much coal mining took place nearby at Edlington and New Rossington, but nature is reclaiming what little remains of those industrial scars.

The distinctive tower of the parish church dominates this view, which gives an excellent overall prospect of the Victorian 'new' town of Saltburn, with its symmetrical grid work of streets.

This was the period when few supermarkets existed and those that did were built in town centres, as most people relied on public transport.

In 1824 the Royal Manchester Institution was hoping to move into a new headquarters in Mosley Street, and in the accepted practice of the day invited architects to submit their ideas by means of open competition

The heated controversy continues between those who consider it ugly, claustrophobic and the open market Huddersfield's Open Market, once the popular 'Monday Market', has been given a new lease of

The other side of the street. The hardware store has had a pre-season facelift: a new awning, a coat of paint, and the relocation of the shop-sign from the ground to the second floor.