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The old coaching inn known as the Rainbow was one of the many which had run back from Kendal's main streets since the Middle Ages.

The town consists of ten streets within the walls, which are defended by round towers, and around twenty outside.

When this picture of the High Street was taken, there would be plenty of outlets from which it was possible to buy tobacco products.

The newly-erected telegraph lines suggest the relative affluence of this street. Other than the small child posing with its nanny, everywhere looks extremely quiet, too.

The 'No Entry - One Way Street' signs were an attempt to effect a remedy. In the background, Barclay's Bank stands on a site already occupied by a bank in 1790.

Capturing a street scene on film was not as easy a hundred years ago as it is now.

Market Street c1955 Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed

The billiard rooms housed in the Oxford Buildings are on the right; the Palace Cinema is further down the street; and the cycle shop and the Rendezvous Milk Bar are opposite.

This bustling scene captures the essence of many small towns in the 1960s before the arrival of multiple retailers introduced a uniformity to almost every shopping street everywhere.

Street Farm (left) still displays parish notices, and the sign (far right) still directs travellers to the excellent Nelson Head pub.

It is difficult to believe that this sleepy little village was once a bustling seaport – there were five alehouses along this street some 400 years ago! But there is no pub here now.

Today, there are no longer trees lining the street, and the bridge itself was replaced in 1968.

Par Green has since been made a one-way street, and the pub is a private house.

In 1991the junction with London Road (to the left) was realigned in the interest of road safety, and a pedestrian refuge in the High Street was installed.

At this time the street narrowed, because of a row of houses surviving in the middle of the roadway.

The town's Market Place is predominantly Victorian and is the second 'centre' of the lovely old town—the High Street is the first.

The early neighbourhoods were characterised by winding streets and plenty of open space. Some of the plans won awards.

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

Many of the buildings on the High Street were re-fronted in Georgian times; inside some of the shops and inns we can see the earlier jettied timber frames.

This Victorian street scene combines bystanders quite obviously enthralled with the activities of the photographer, who are standing still enough to be captured in sharp detail, with people going about

In the 1950s Greatham consisted of little more than the High Street.

The Presbyterian Church, Frederick Street, was built in 1847. Holy Trinity, Laygate, was earlier, having been built in 1832-34 to the designs of Anthony Salvin. Both have since been demolished.

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded

After crossing the Wye Bridge, our man from Frith captured plenty of activity and detail in this photograph of the main street.