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It has not been long since a horse or two trotted along this Edwardian street, as the evidence in the centre of the road reveals.

This street in a medieval and famous city is serenaded by the majestic Westgate Towers. New in Chaucer's time, they were built by Archbishop Sudbury and replaced a ruin on the same spot.

This view from the bridge over the Bradwell Brook looks north up the main village street, with the Bridge House Café and Pearce's ice cream shop on the right - Bradwell is famous for its home-made ice

This busy High Street scene shows many well known shop names. The Home and Colonial (right) was a popular grocery store.

Here we have a view of the High Street at a quiet time. In the foreground is the railway, and further back stands the church of St Mary the Virgin.

Other fine examples in the High Street include the 18th-century Bedfont House, the 14th- century Woolstaplers Hall and the early 19th- century Lygon Arms.

The road on the left, Bailey Street, leads to the bailey of the old castle, and is now a pedestrianised shopping area.

The first inn of that name in the street was established in 1552 by William Chatterton, once Groom in Ordinary to Queen Mary.

A new town was laid out between 1810 and 1830, with the Parade as its main street.

At centre right a Bristol bus (Service No 65 to Chippenham) is leaving Rolleston Street with the Bristol Omnibus Company offices on the corner.

Oakham Lane is one of the streets leading from the village green. The building with the white window partially obscured behind the tree was the village school.

The bypass on the south side of town was opened in 1926; it was much needed to relieve the narrow streets of both local china clay and through traffic.

The entrance to Barclays Bank is seen to the right of the picture.The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral.

Described in 1890 as a 'handsome modern thoroughfare', Corporation Street was the result of a massive redevelopment of 93 acres of slums.

Once this was the part of the street with clothing shops; it is now the part of town with the banks, building societies and estate agents.

This photograph is taken further down Market Street.

Hitchin Street formed part of the complex of parallel trackways which made up the Icknield Way.

This gateway entrance to the City at the west end of Fleet Street was designed by Christopher Wren. The figures in the niches are James I and Charles I.

Today Winchester Street is pedestrianised.

This street is so called because the Market Place, Frenchgate and Ryder's Wynd all drained into it.

There was a church built of stone on the site as early as 1056; before that, Saxon bishops ruled County Durham from Chester-le-Street's timber-built monastic cathedral, where the bones of St Cuthbert himself

The sails of the Union Windmill peep over the roofs of the half-timbered cottages lining the street.

This photograph shows the centre of the busy High Street, with the road to Bexley and London ahead and the turning to Crayford visible on the right.

Both the Crown and the George & Dragon public houses (on the right-hand side of the street) have ceased trading, and are now private dwellings.