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As we look at this mundane street as it drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning

This triangular Bath stone fountain stands at the junction of Silver Street, Vicarage Street and Church Street; it was erected in 1783.

Houchin Street and Basingwell Street to the east of the High Street were cleared in the 1960s for car parks.H W Veck & Sons, a carpet retailer, has been trading here since 1928.

As we walk down Northgate Street from the cross, and turn right by Debenhams, we will enter the relatively new area of Kings Square.

Although the street layout at this point is the same today, most of the buildings have changed beyond recognition. On the left, note the interesting top hat trade sign above a shop awning.

Ornate lamps and fashionable street furniture have been added to the High Street since this photograph was taken.

Wilmslow`s main shopping street would contain all the shops needed by the community, including their links with the outside world, as the newspaper shop demonstrates in its adverts.

Previously known as 'Bowrington Street' after Dr John Bowring, Commercial Street is still home to the Sawyers Arms.

The Post Office bought it for their use and moved from King Street in 1919. A lamp-post sign stands outside.

Following the decline of Steyning's port during the Middle Ages, the focus of the town shifted southwards from around the church and became centred on the junction of Church Street and the High Street.

The church is near the intersection of Well Street and Church Street, and the vicarage lies beyond.

Sunday was the day for window shopping, and thousands would come in from the towns around Manchester (especially from the north) and spend the day 'gawpin' in the windows of Market Street.

On 30 August 1940, a 100kg bomb scored a direct hit on Park Street bus depot, killing one person and creating a temporary bus shortage.

In this splendidly evocative view from the High Street/St Peter's Street/Dame Alice Street junction, the photographer looks north along the Broadway towards the leafy De Parys Avenue, past the policeman

When Marlborough Road was built in the 1960s, although it appears on a map to extend Duke Street towards the hill and one can walk through, there is no vehicular access between the two roads

Although the B1004 is called the High Street, it is South Street that provides the main shopping centre for the town.

The High Street widens out into the Broadway with Blucher Street merging from the left and the High Street continues north as far as the foot of White Hill.

In Church Street, Kirkhill Café offers 'luncheons, teas and morning coffee'. Kirkhill was, presumably, an earlier name for Church Street.

The wide High Street of the town of Skipton on the River Aire was the scene of a weekly livestock market until well into the 20th century, but it now accommodates a general street market on Mondays, Wednesdays

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