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The climax of the High Street is the 1892 Cross Keys pub building in the centre of the photograph. To the right is the tall White Hart, completed in 1902.

St Peter's is the only church in the Manchester area to have been commissioned from George Edmund 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

The street at this time was largely occupied by small businesses such as (on the right) Harold the jeweller's, with next door Hiscock's the builder and decorator's.

Stead & Simpson is no longer on the left, but at the top of the street on the right.

Great Budworth ia one of the prettiest of villages, and this must be one of the prettiest streets in it.

Reading's covered market was built in a landlocked site entered via the Corn Exchange from Market Place and the great archway from Broad Street.

Foregate Street was one of the city locations painted by artist Louise Rayner (1832-1924) in a work entitled 'A Busy Street'. It certainly looks busy enough in this picture.

The crowded and busy pavements on both sides of the street, and the pedestrian crossing marked with belisha beacons in the middle of the photograph, show little indication of the enormous weight of motor

Here the photographer looks north along the High Street, towards its junction with Bridge Street to the right, and Desborough Road curving left.

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.

This street scene is much altered from that of the 1906 photograph.

It was not always quiet on the streets of Penistone; until 1910 cattle and sheep were sold in the streets on Thursdays, and many a deal was struck over a pint or two at the Spread Eagle Hotel.

Three of Church Street's five pubs are in this photo - the Corn Meter extreme left, the Star centre left, and the Live and Let Live just beyond the archway on the right.

Looking towards the Castle at the end of the street, note the agricultural implements on sale on the left, the Lion Hotel further down the street, and on the right-hand side the arched

Much further south along the High Street is St Mary's Guildhall at the junction with Sibthorp Street.

Wrexham 'comprises several spacious, well-paved streets', says a contemporary gazetteer, 'and has undergone great improvement by reconstruction of buildings and the construction of new streets'.

This central section of Regent Stret follows the line of the old Swallow Street, where London's notorious highwaymen left their horses in livery.

As we look south down Ironmonger Street, the view is terminated by St Michael's Church, now gruesomely converted into shops, but I suppose in some way 'saved' from physical if not spiritual destruction

A familiar telephone box can be seen on the left - in regular use in the days before mobile phones - and towards the northern end of the main street lies an old milepost which definitely would have been

Tramlines used to run through the streets as stone was moved to build the nearby aqueduct at Trevor, which was completed in 1805.

The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street

As we look north towards Market Square, Hutchinson's tobacconist shop is at the corner of Langton Street.