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Here we see the junction of White Horse Street and Sun Street, leading to St Mary's Church with its 13th-century tower and prominent spike.

Mostyn Street is one of Llandudno's main shopping streets; we see it here pictured in bright sunlight.

Of Harborne's pubs, the Bell, Old Church Street has survived for three hundred years; its bar is in the passageway.The Junction, High Street has one very big room, an island bar, and some fixtures

A Roman settlement on Stane Street and the navigable River Arun.

This church in Kensington High Street was foundd in the 12th century by the Abbot of Abingdon. It was rebuilt by the Victorians between 1869 and 1872 to Sir George Gilbert Scott's lavish design.

This view looks towards the town from the junction of Anstey Road, Normandy Street and Paper Mill Lane.

The High Street, with many cars, and a tarmacadam road, is much changed from earlier pictures. Simonds Bank is now Barclays, and Armstrongs has become Eighteens.

This view looks north out of the Market Place, past the corner of St John Street, with the Old Vicarage on the right.

This view shows Victoria Street at the crossing with Ann Street, heading for Queen's Bridge. The telephone wires must also have been going over the river.

Looking back up North Street towards the Parade and Market House, with the Post Office on the left, as it still is today.

Much has changed here: the trams have long gone, the Celtic cross memorial to the Somerset Light Infantry's Burma Campaign in the 1880s is now a traffic island further up in North Street, while the open

Here, East Street heads towards Fore Street past 1830s stucco terraces. The Claridges London Hotel is now occupied by Waterstones bookshop and Marks and Spencers.

There was a castle here, which was besieged by King Stephen in 1138, but its keep has long gone; only its outline is marked on the grass of its hill at the end of Bailey Street.

Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street to the western scarp of the limestone ridge.

Dating from the 1500s (and possibly earlier), the half- timbered building on the left fronting both the High Street and Hickmans Lane has had a chequered history.

This brief tour of Stamford has now climbed up to St Mary's Street to look east past the north nave aisle of St Mary's Church to the Stamford Hotel, somewhat over-large for the narrow street and towering

For about 200 years its main industry was rope making, which was started by Thomas Burfield; his shop was in the High Street.

Long Street, which was once known as West Street, has been the main artery of Tetbury since at least the 16th century.

High Street c1955 Mayfield's attractive High Street, with its raised brick pavements and fine architec- ture, speaks of the days when Mayfield was an important iron town.

This photograph of South Street shows the premises of the London and County Banking Company on the left.

This shot was taken at the southern end of Market Street, which leads to that area of town that was traditionally the main shopping centre.

In 1836, Spencer Street was just a rough track when it was chosen as the site for a Congregationalist chapel.

The seven-bay Crown Hotel (right), with columned porch, has a large and elaborate sign over the street. The painted advertisement next door has gone, but the gable beyond retains the date 1662.

Perhaps the best-known of York's medieval streets is The Shambles, seen here looking towards Pavement, and virtually unchanged today.