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As we look west along Friar Street from in front of the Town Hall, the amount of rebuilding is evident: the occasional older building survives amid a lot of neo-Georgian dating from the 1920s to

Here were clipped green lawns and exquisite quadrangles.The fortunate few could enjoy a few precious moments away from the bustle of the city streets above.

Paternoster Row, on the right, was once a fashionable shopping street patronised by Pepys and his wife.

This photograph was taken midway down the High Street.

Winchcombe lies on the high ground to the north-east of Cheltenham; its street pattern suggests its origins as an important Saxon town, once the capital of the kingdom of Mercia.

A little uphill from view R352015, The New Inn is set at an angle to the A5 Watling Street and has a 1740 middle with late Victorian wings. It has since been renamed The Heart of England.

Many of the coach tours to Keswick and Windermere are advertised on hoardings along the street.

The old houses along this main street, some half-timbered, others of brick, or board or tile fronted, were mostly constructed during the 15th century when the village prospered in the profitable cloth

This view is looking up Fore Street towards the parish church of St Thomas Becket. It is said that this church was built as a penance by William Tracy for his part in Becket's murder.

Here, in Walton High Street, only the occasional pony and trap disturbs the peace, although neighbouring Felixstowe was enjoying popularity as a seaside resort.

As the town's popularity as a holiday resort grew, Victorian streets and shops spread back from the sea. Here were grocers, outfitters, tobacconists and souvenir and fancy goods shops.

The High Street is unusually wide for a Surrey village, with the Town Hall of 1814 in the centre. There is remarkably little traffic in the picture.

The winding streets of the old town were familiar to Elizabethan sea-dogs such as Drake, Frobisher, Hawkins and Raleigh.

High Street c1965 Famous for its RAF station, Benson grew during the turnpike and coaching era.

Most of the buildings shown in this picture, which was taken in the latter years of Queen Victoria's reign, can be seen in Gloucester Street to this day.

Holy Trinity overlooks the north end of the High Street, although it stands a little apart as though distancing itself from temporal affairs.

Originally one of four market crosses, the Poultry Cross, at the junction of Butcher Row and Minster Street, is the only one to survive.

Opposite is the premises of W H Lewry, the High Street butcher, which remained in the family until 1999.

On the left street lighting has appeared.

She died at a house in College Street in 1817.

The shell remains as a walkway through to Carlton Street, and it stands next to the 1905 Carnegie Library.

Look towards the bottom of the street and you see a glimpse of The Spain.

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

Once eulogised in The Times as 'the most beautiful thoroughfare in Britain', Cheltenham's Promenade began its existence as a walkway from the High Street to a spa pump room that stood where the Queen's