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The Daventry Civic Society was formed to preserve this historic street from demolition. Many of the properties were in need of restoration, but fortunately they were saved.

Hodges Garage (in the distance, behind the bus entering Market Square) has since been demolished, and the Castle Hotel (by the street lamp on the right) has also closed.

Trams first trundled down Cheltenham's streets on 22 August 1901. By the end of the 1920s they had been rendered redundant by the quicker, go-anywhere buses, and the trams were withdrawn in 1930.

Tewkesbury's cross stands at the meeting point of the town's three main roads – the High Street, Church Street and Barton Street.

East along the High Street with its many good buildings, including ones with ornate 17th-century brickwork or Georgian facades, Bridge Street bears left to descend towards the bridge of 1783 over the

This view looks south down the High Street from near High Bridge. The 11th-century tower of St Mary le Wigford church peers out amid the later commercial architecture.

High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten.

This photograph is taken from the junction of Market Street and Upper Market Street, looking down towards the High Street.

The eight daily coaches would have passed the Bull and Horseshoes at Potter Street, the Queen's Head at Churchgate Street, the Green Man at Mulberry Green and the George at the end of the High Street.

Church Street and the roads off to the left are part of a grid of Victorian brick, terraced, straight streets.

The half-timbered 17th-century King's Arms, on the left, lays claim, along with The King's Head in neighbouring North Street, to be the original Marquis of Granby in Charles Dickens' comic novel The Pickwick

Burton's the tailors displays its fine facade with Portland stone columns, which was created by rebuilding the corner of Horsemarket Street and Buttermarket Street in 1937.

Here we see Bognor's curving High Street in the days when the internal-combustion engine was in its infancy. Carriages can be seen along the street, and over on the right is a goat cart.

Beyond Westgate Street lies woodland and countryside, including Hardwick Heath. Today most of this area is covered by housing, part of the expansion of the town since the mid 1970s.

Looking north up O'Connell Street from the west side.

Once controlled by a simple set of three traffic lights, the junction of George Street, Wellington Street (left) and Manchester Street (right) now requires a multi-function system complete with laning,

The View to Bridge Street This section of Regent Street is immediately to the north of the McIlroy's store.

The Cross, the junction of the High Street, Cambridge Street, Huntingdon Street and Church Street, marks the original site of the centre of town, and was a planned medieval market place.

Looking North-East to Fleet Street The junction to East Street is on the left, with Catherine Street on the right.

Originally Eastgate Street, this street was renamed Caroline Street after Countess Caroline of Dunraven.

We are looking westwards from the High Street into Dovecot Street. A

The High Street, earlier called the Great Street, is lined either side with Georgian buildings which sit at the head of earlier burgage plots, much the same as at Uxbridge, Middlesex or St Ives, Huntingdonshire

The narrow, twisting streets and quaint buildings attract artists and photographers from all over the world.

This house stands on the corner of Coney Street and New Street. The lower part of the house is now a shop that sells mobile telephones, but the upper storey remains virtually unchanged.