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Italians lived in Clerkenwell and behind Holborn in such streets as Leather Lane. The first Italian ice creams were sold in High Holborn.

The long, steeply banked street of Gilesgate is still occasionally known by its medieval name of Gillygate, meaning the street of St Giles.

We are looking along Church Street at its junction with Cumberland Street (left) and the Thoroughfare (right).

Those still trading are the Surrey Yeoman (see 46016 overleaf), the Bull's Head (Rose Hill, which we can see in 54666, right, with its entrance on the corner of the High Street and just behind the

This photograph of Love Lane was taken from Barker Street.

There was a great fire in 1600 in Gamlingay, and most of the buildings along Church Street were burnt down. The Cock is one of the early replacements; in 1965 the beer was supplied by Greene King.

The Sterling Cinema, in the High Street, closed in 1975. A branch of Tesco Metro now occupies the building. The best clue to recognising the building today is to look for the two flagpoles.

These premises were on Market Hill at the top of George Street, opposite the old Corn Exchange. They made way for Debenhams in 1978.

A number twenty-eight tram slides silently along the High Street. The streets are deserted, so everyone must be down at the beach enjoying the sun and sea breezes.

The broad High Street is mainly Victorian, peppered with Georgian buildings.

The wide and elegant Station Street leads down to the porticoed entrance of the railway station.

King Street still retains many 17th and 18th century buildings, despite attempts by the Luftwaffe to destroy them.

Looking back over the Lawn towards Bear Street, the view is instantly recognisable today. The road is widened a little and the street furniture changed.

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

The quiet village street at Appleton-le-Street, west of Malton, shows little passing traffic outside the village pub.

This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.

Taken from the opposite end of the street approximately 20 years after 86777 (above), Union Street still presents a bustling atmosphere.

High Street 1918 A view of Seaview's High Street during the final summer of the First World War.The lady on the right demonstrates the changing fashions caused by the shortage of materials.

But it did not escape the 'Poets' Corner' craze for street-naming of the late 19th century. At least Penrith's Wordsworth Street, had a genuine claim to the local poet.

Forming a boundary with the original Augustinian priory site established by Henry I, the High Street follows the route of the Watling Street ancient trackway.

Here we see an empty street on the approaches to Winchester during the long 'afternoon' of Edward VII's reign.

Just beyond Bridge Foot we enter Bridge Street.

This turn of the century view shows the broad and spacious high street. In the centre is the former town hall, later a masonic hall, which dates from 1775.

Victoria Street passes in front of the cathedral. We can see a part of the white North Porch at the side of the tower.