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Today this little street remains charmingly old-fashioned, with bookshops and a millinery which makes hats for Ladies' Day at Ascot.

The library survives, but it is cut off from High Street by the ring road. It was built in 1905 with the help of a £3,000 donation from the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Stratford Road was first recorded in 1322, though it was just a trackway known as Shirley Street at that time. Shirley developed along it in linear fashion.

The bishop also set up schemes for the unemployed, paved the streets, built 50 cottages, endowed a boys' grammar school and financed extensions to the church.

This picture is, perhaps, more representative of working-class Rochdale and shows telephone wires and electric tram cables strung like knitting above the street.

The origins of this rambling building, which overlooks the main street, lie in a 15th-century farmhouse, and until the New Inn was built in the 1640s, it also served the village as its ale-house.

Ladies' hairdressers (the shop next door with curtained windows), however, were a less common sight on shopping streets.

The village derives its name from the fact that it was the location of Garstang's parish church, St Helen's, which lies beyond the cottages at the far end of the street.

Heysham old village is an attractive place, with an assortment of stone cottages lining the streets.

Lancaster was an important place throughout the medieval period, but although the pattern of many of its old streets remain, few of today's buildings pre-date the Georgian period.

In the High Street, the house (centre left) will soon be the shop of Henry Stile's gent's outfitters; in the centre are the Tiger's Head, landlord Edward Smith, and the gabled Boot Stores of 1905.

In the background, against the trees, the surviving spire of the 15th-century church looks down on this straggling village on the Romans' Stane Street linking London and Chichester.

Further down the High Street are the gas showrooms. Bishops Waltham is still remembered for having the only privately owned bank in the country.

The Street is the name of this lane joining Lower Farringdon to Upper Farringdon. In the far distance we can see a cottage which was owned in 1839 by the Rev John Benn, friend of Jane Austen.

We are looking from the Nag's Head Island side towards Bridge Street and the town.

The street patterns of Evesham have probably changed little since the days of the battle, when many of the rebels fleeing from that desperate fight were slaughtered amongst its houses.

joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.As well as having three railway lines, the town also had three turnpike roads.They were the Whalley to Manchester Road (1790), now Abbey Street

Down the street, just to the right of the white canopy, was the entrance to West's brush factory - one of Braintree's key industries.

The village stretches along the valley of the River Umber, and is reputed to have the longest main street of any village in the country - nearly two miles.

The village stretches along the valley of the River Umber, and is reputed to have the longest main street of any village in the country - nearly two miles.

The road, like Broad Street, is lined with young trees. On the corner opposite the hotel is a post box inserted into a brick pillar for the convenience of the residents.

This view looks north-east past the war memorial cross of about 1920 towards Watling Street, which forms the Green's short east side.

The substantial stone buildings to be seen in the town here in the Square and also around Salter Street hint at the wealth made by local merchants, who made their money in trade and shipping

It was Bishop Story who made a gift of the cross to the city; he also endowed the Prebendal School in West Street.