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These premises were on Market Hill at the top of George Street, opposite the old Corn Exchange. They made way for Debenhams in 1978.

A number twenty-eight tram slides silently along the High Street. The streets are deserted, so everyone must be down at the beach enjoying the sun and sea breezes.

The broad High Street is mainly Victorian, peppered with Georgian buildings.

The wide and elegant Station Street leads down to the porticoed entrance of the railway station.

King Street still retains many 17th and 18th century buildings, despite attempts by the Luftwaffe to destroy them.

Looking back over the Lawn towards Bear Street, the view is instantly recognisable today. The road is widened a little and the street furniture changed.

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

The quiet village street at Appleton-le-Street, west of Malton, shows little passing traffic outside the village pub.

This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.

Taken from the opposite end of the street approximately 20 years after 86777 (above), Union Street still presents a bustling atmosphere.

High Street 1918 A view of Seaview's High Street during the final summer of the First World War.The lady on the right demonstrates the changing fashions caused by the shortage of materials.

But it did not escape the 'Poets' Corner' craze for street-naming of the late 19th century. At least Penrith's Wordsworth Street, had a genuine claim to the local poet.

Forming a boundary with the original Augustinian priory site established by Henry I, the High Street follows the route of the Watling Street ancient trackway.

Here we see an empty street on the approaches to Winchester during the long 'afternoon' of Edward VII's reign.

Just beyond Bridge Foot we enter Bridge Street.

This turn of the century view shows the broad and spacious high street. In the centre is the former town hall, later a masonic hall, which dates from 1775.

Victoria Street passes in front of the cathedral. We can see a part of the white North Porch at the side of the tower.

Growing trade in the town had led to the building of Talbot Street in the 1890s.

North Street joins High Street by Lloyds Bank, and it is down here on the left that we find the last Daventry Grammar School building.

A view north up the High Street, which bears slightly to the right. Ahead is the entrance to Surrey Street by a corner building - it still survives.

A view north up the High Street, which bears slightly to the right. Ahead is the entrance to Surrey Street by a corner building - it still survives.

The Romans originally laid out the streets of Wareham to match the four points of the compass. The street names of today, North, South, East and West, match this design.

This village is on Watling Street at the junction with the Northampton to Warwick Road. The older village, Lower Weedon, is to the south-west of Watling Street.

Rochester's High Street runs along the famous Roman Watling Street; it has not changed greatly since this view was taken. The timber-framed house dates from the late 16th century.