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Furnace Bottom is one example, while Pig Street is so named because pig iron was transported that way to the Severn Railway Bridge, and then by rail to Gatcombe, Bristol and beyond.

One of Newent's present day tourist attractions is the Shambles, a museum of Victorian life that has its entrance in Church Street, a little way up on the left in this picture.

Daventry High Street is now looking very busy. The Co-op have modernised their premises from the original three shops (a baker's, a grocer's and a butcher's) to a modern supermarket.

All is quiet in this scene, but increasing traffic congestion, both local and tourist, finally led to the narrow hill becoming a one-way street.

Although spoiled by modern development, the tangle of streets around the old town is worth exploring and there is still much fine Georgian and Victorian architecture to be seen.

The chemist moved from No 49 High Street to the shop on the left in 1967.

Did Henry VIII walk this street? In 1519 a Bewdley girl gave birth to his illegitimate son, later created Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.

This is the main street through the town. The steps used to lead into the post office, but it is now a restaurant and Tourist Information Office.

The Prince of Wales Hotel was built on Lord Street in 1876. In the 1923 Dunlop Guide the Prince is listed has having 150 beds and garaging for 4 cars.

In the mid-1950s, however, there were still horses and carts in the street (centre), and motorists still had time to read the advertising hoardings visible on the building on the left.

We are looking eastwards from the end of Brotton High Street, and the chimneys of the Skinningrove iron and steel works can be seen in the distance.

Top left: Nether Edge, first developed residentially in the Victorian period, is noted for its tree-lined streets.

This view is on the High Street, part of the A361 Banbury to Daventry road. In the 1950s this was the more minor B4036.

Towcester has a long history, initially as a Roman fort and town called 'Lactodorum' located on the route the Anglo-Saxons called Watling Street which ran from Richborough in Kent to Shropshire.

There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

The buildings on the right made way for new ones at the entrance to High Street in the 1950s. Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

To the east of the High Street there were several chalk pits: this was the biggest. It lies to the south of Carshalton Road, and east of the Congregational Church.

He is looking along Germain Street towards the town centre and Market Place, but the houses beyond the bridge gave long been demolished.

In this view, the photographer looks up High Street from the west, the opposite direction to that in the two earlier views.

This street takes its name from the Guildhall of Our Lady, later called the Wool Hall, which now forms part of the Swan Hotel on the left.

Fore Street heads east from the Market Place to cross the River Parrett on the iron bridge dated 1883; this replaced an early Coalbrookdale cast-iron bridge of 1795.

Tenby was never really designed for use by the motorcar, and apart from some Victorian road widening, with the demolition of some old terraces and properties, it still largely adheres to its medieval street

These included the lodges which were built on the High Street at the end of the carriage drive (their sites are now the Library Gardens), by 1901 re-erected half way up Marlow Hill, and the lodge

This is St Mary`s parish church in South Street, seen from the north-east. The projecting north transept (right) dates from the 13th century and is two centuries older than the tower.