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The livestock market was originally held in the High Street on Tuesdays, before being moved to North Street in 1865; thirty years later it moved again to this site in Woodbridge Road.

Circuses, including Barnum and Bailey's, once passed down this street on their way to the Vetch field.

The attempt to impose parking on one side of the street on alternate days has long since been abandoned in favour of time limits.

up-to-the-minute dual carriageway was created to relieve the pressure of excessive traffic in 1931 by widen- ing and extending a street which, until that time, ran only between Humberstone Gate and Rutland Street. On

Here in the Market Place a number of local people and tradesmen are curiously watching the cameraman's antics in the middle of the street. On

Already busy with turnpike traffic, the railway's arrival encouraged more hotels, such as the Royal Station Hotel at the bottom of the street. On

Looking north from New Bond Street, this late 19th-century view captures well the quality of Milsom Street, one of the earlier streets laid out beyond the boundaries of the original walled town.

Elizabeth I granted it a royal charter in 1561, at which time it was located in St Swithin's Street, only moving to its present location on Upper Tything in 1868.

Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels. Famous visitors to Lyme have included Daniel Defoe, Mary Mitford, Jane Austen, Alfred Tennyson and Beatrix Potter.

This view takes in the east end of the Market Place and Front Street. On the right is G W Roy's fancy repository and the post office, and just beyond that is the Black Horse pub.

Looking north-east, this photograph shows a strangely deserted High Street. On the right is the junction with Station Road.

Queen Street on the right, built in 1838, leads to the churchyard. The tall building (centre) with carved bargeboards, dormer windows, ridge tiles and 'Tudor' chimneys was Boots.

Here we see the beginnings of a familiar retail pattern: multinationals are taking over the high street. On the left is Home & Colonial, which by this date had several hundred branches.

A railway branch from Par on the main line helped develop Newquay as a holiday and bathing resort after it fully opened in 1876, and the entrance to the station terminus is up the street on the left.

A fascinating picture of a suburban street. On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.

Banks are now found in Eastgate Street, on the left-hand side of this picture, which eventually leads to the under-cover Kings Walk shops.

With Kipling's 'blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs' surrounding it, the village runs up a valley from the sea, climaxing beyond the High Street on the Green with its pond, where Kipling lived.

At the bottom end of Fore Street, on the right, is another Elizabethan building: the old Grammar School of 1583, with its tall porch bay, now part of Chard School.

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

The River Brett flows parallel to the street on the right.

The willows have gone or been replaced, and there is more building in the plots behind the High Street on the left, but the scene is still just as tranquil.

The Cornish Bank is beyond, and beside it an omnibus has begun to ascend Wendron Street. One

York Street, on the right to the other side of the Midland Bank, was cut through only at the end of the 19th century to improve traffic flow to Richmond; traffic previously had to funnel

A lone policeman in his high-buttoned tunic directs traffic emerging from the Ewell Road to cross the junction with Station Way, The Broadway and the High Street. On