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It is seen here as a busy interchange with Regent Street, which was then the more dominant shopping street. The four quadrants were rebuilt between 1913 and 1928.

The street is dominated on the south side by the slender spire of St Nicholas's Church, unfortunately demolished in 1955.

This grand war memorial by Henry Fehr was erected in 1923 on a site formed by the demolition of a number of houses at the east end of High Street, which visually linked the street to East Hill – a

Now, an architecturally unsympathetic post office occupies the corner of Queen Street/Boutport Street, Clarkes printing works has become Clarkes Hotel and Symons has lost its glorious canopy.

We are looking down on the Pot Market, where pots and pans were once bought and sold, and along Queen Street, the main shopping street of this small town on the White Peak plateau.

A fair number of old cottages still line the earliest village streets around the church, but elsewhere any surviving cottage tends to be islanded in a sea of modernity.

Leintwardine straddles an ancient Roman settlement, Bravinium, along Watling Street, (not to be confused with the better known Watling Street that leads from London to Wroxeter).

the days when the English village was a thriving community, Yelvertoft benefited from two bakers, a butcher, a blacksmith, three inns and a grocer, whose premises can be seen on the left of the main street

School - was built by public subscription on Derby Street. That building, now Stokers' furniture store, was originally only one storey; in 1853 an upper floor was added at the cost of £1,007.

The Apex stands in the fork of the junction between the High Street and Church Street, both of which lead down to old landing stages on the Great Ouse. Today, little has changed.

This street trading woman is offering potatoes from her basket.

Off London Street, just before the King's Head, Dene Road is seen here dropping into London Street at the corner beside the King's Head. The thatched cottage on the left still stands.

E M Mumford, on the corner of the High Street and the Market Square, displayed enamel trade signs on its gable end when this photograph was taken in the mid 1950s.

One of the larger villages of Sussex, Billingshurst may get its name from the Saxon 'Billings', or perhaps from the Roman engineer Belinus who was responsible for Stane Street, the Roman road linking

Small shops on the other side of the street sell Lyons cakes, Woodbines, and Walls ice cream. We can see the sign of the Barley Mow, which is set back from the street.

Seen from Lower High Street, this was the main A30 through the town and a busy stop for buses and coaches.

The early 19th-century Bell Hotel dominates this lively street scene, with its vital interaction of stalls, traffic and people, now so often lost in the bromide world of pedestrianisation.

Petham is a small village set in a valley just off the Roman Stane Street that runs from Canterbury to Lympne. There are remains of entrenchments here, constructed during the Roman invasion.

This view was taken from the iron bridge, and shows the backs of various High Street and Moulsham Street properties. Some of them had their own landing stages.

A RAC or AA motorcycle rider, without his motorbike, is walking past a row of Elizabethan houses in Friday Street. Henley, with its medieval street plan, has over 300 listed buildings.

On the right is Boots the Chemist's first shop in Pelham Street, opened in 1892. This was Jesse Boot's finest shop to date.

The town retains its narrow and cramped medieval streets. Fore Street is bounded by the fine parish church, built of yellow Pentewan stone.

Almost every decade saw the construction of a new city landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City

Almost every decade saw the construction of a new city landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City