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Burtons has also gone, though the Victorian Grand Hotel on the opposite side of the street remains.

On the left-hand side of the street, the ventilators of the oast house project from the roof.

This view of St Paul's Street shows the Half Moon Inn as it was before being rebuilt in 1938, and before the entrance to Star Lane (left) was widened in 1923.

The first modern shop façade in the High Street was Fine Fare (left), a small supermarket on the corner of Meadow Road, vying with the more old-fashioned International Stores opposite.

Until 1885, Wheeler Gate was a narrow street only wide enough for one vehicle to pass at a time.

Night-time illumination comes from the ornate lamp standard that was to become a ubiquitous piece of Victorian street furniture.

Few will disagree that Sherborne is one of the most beautiful towns in Dorset: every street reveals fresh aspects of its long history.

Frith's photographer looks east towards Kensington Church Street in the distance.

A solitary soldier from the First World War stands sentinel on Dronfield's simple war memorial in the main street, opposite the White Swan public house (the licensee in 1965 was Alfred Edward Greeves).

The Market Place and Cross, now partly pedestrianised, is situated just off the mile-long High Street.

This view is taken from the Elizabeth Street end of the park, and looks north towards the Everard Arms (facing the pathway) and Forest Gate Road.

Interesting that the Post Office is spelled without the hyphens, but spellings, as we have noted, are a peculiar Welsh idiosyncrasy and every town, village and street can have a slightly or totally dissimilar

Church House was built in the High Street next to the minster in 1906 at a cost of £2,870 14s 11d. It replaced Sansom's ironmonger's shop, and was dedicated by the Bishop of Salisbury.

The High Street is hardly recognisable today, and now carries a great deal more traffic than we see here.

Porlock's High Street has changed little, and traffic on the A39 has not increased enough to initiate a long proposed by-pass.

We are standing almost at the corner of the High Street, with the old rectory (home of the famous authoress Dorothy Sayers) hidden behind the wall on the right.

The High Street today looks much the same as it did in the 1950s - except that like so many small towns, the shops have gone.

Until 1910 the village was part of the estate of the Duke of Bedford, who was responsible for many of the buildings on the High Street.

Perhaps Richmond's most handsome and unchanged cobbled street, Newbiggin means 'new settlement'; its level width suggests that it was planned as the town's original market place.

Richmond had one of the earliest gasworks in Europe, built in 1820 to provide street lighting for the fashionable Georgian town.

Richmond had one of the earliest gasworks in Europe, built in 1820 to provide street lighting for the fashionable Georgian town.

The cobbled streets and granite steps remain unchanged, but in place of shipping offices and fish salesmen are now ice cream parlours, cafés and souvenir shops.

in the middle of the road, we have no idea what is attracting the attention of the men in the foreground of this picture; surely it is not the horse-drawn tram travelling at a sedate pace along King Street

As we look from inside the city walls through the arch to St Dunstan's Street, we can see the route taken by Henry II when he came as a penitent after the murder of Thomas Becket in 1174, and by Henry