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The photographer is looking out of window in Cockspur Street.

The gatehouse opens on to the end of Pall Mall, with a view up St James's Street to Piccadilly.

Taken on the old Caversham bridge, this view looks into Caversham's Bridge Street with on the left the double gabled Taylor's Hotel of 1891; by 1908 it had been renamed the Thames Valley Hotel.

The old corner house boasts restored architectural features whilst the street's long-standing resident, the Old Arcade, has its frontage opened and modernised - the market entrance passage still intact

The traders' stalls can be seen on the Market Place, and there is far more activity in the surrounding streets.

At 46 Winchester Street, the Greyhound belonged to Simonds Brewery in Reading that owned many pubs. It brewed Simonds Golden Dry Export that was popular at the time.

A herd of Shorthorn cattle is driven down the main street of West Witton, which stands at the eastern entrance to Wensleydale.

Sad to say, many of the timber-framed buildings in St Andrew's Street were demolished in the 1960s.

This road is the main shopping street in Fleet, and it contains a mixture of architecture from Victorian to modern.

Pretty cottages with iron latticed windows compliment thatches old and new all along the main street.

An example of immediately post-war council housing, this street is now leafy and well-established, and largely in private ownership.

'Moorsholm Docks' can also be found on the High Street - in reality, a set of stone drinking troughs for passing animals.

The van (right) belongs to Banyard's the butcher's, whose shop was in nearby Church Street. The buildings remain much the same, but all the businesses have changed today.

A police officer keeps a close eye on traffic at the foot of Preston Street, with the International Stores displaying its selection of groceries in its corner window, and the printers and stationer's shop

The 15th-century flint tower of the parish church still dominates the long street, which retains vestiges of a Georgian heritage in some of its buildings, although the Victorians were responsible for desecrating

Bradleys, on the right of the street, is an interesting premises.

A guidebook in 1795 described Weobley as having 'a few small streets meanly constructed, without either market or traffic'.

This view of the River Tove is taken from the bridge that crosses the river on the line the Romans set for Watling Street, where the road itself changes alignment from north-west to west-north-west.

Note the complexity of building styles along the street line – the Victorians had no concern for harmony or for what was appropriate.

In the 19th century the street was occupied in the main by saddlers, but their premises gradually closed as horses gave way to the horsepower of cars.

The New Shambles, off Finkle Street, were built in 1803. The word 'shambles' comes from the Old English 'sceamol', which originally meant a bench for the sale of meat.

Freeman, Hardy & Willis must have been one of the earliest high street chains to establish themselves in large and small towns alike.

Barclays Bank dominates the west end, while Lemon Street can be seen emerging on the extreme left. In the centre of it all a policeman on point duty waits for traffic to direct.

Fore Street is in the Copperhouse district of Hayle, which takes its name from a copper works (later a foundry) of the 18th and 19th centuries.