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At the head of the street, the white cottage of the later 16th century is one of few survivors, built prior to Enclosure in 1767.

Earlier pictures of Evesham Street show Cranmore Simmons on the corner, a family-run furniture business established by Alfred Simmons in the 1920s.

At No 72 High Street, which was owned by the family building firm of Croad, there is a small hole in the quarter-inch-thick pane of the bay window facing north.

Kempock Street is a popular street of many shops and dwellings near the pier and ferry terminal. It has become a focal point for day-trippers and tourists.

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

Here in the main street, a policeman stands on traffic duty at the junction with Accrington Road outside the Whalley Arms.The church here was once the mother church for half of Lancashire (47 townships

The Guildhall still dominates this scene of the lower High Street. Cars fill a single line of parking on the waste of the manor. The pavement is up and men are busy in front of Burden's shop.

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

There is much to see in this picture, including the flat-capped men looking directly at the photographer on the right, and the more casual observers further up the street.

Staines may have got its name from the stone- paved remains of a branch of the Roman road of Akeman Street, that once ran to the important Roman station of Ad Pontes nearby, or perhaps

Animals, local produce and other implements such as weaponry and agricultural tools were sold at the junction of the three main streets, Coleshill Street, Mill Street and High Street, and Sutton

A millwright called John Bewley had established an iron-foundry in New Street in 1808, on the site of some hop kilns.

This street-name reminds us of Belfast the market town: the view looks from Arthur Square (another Chichester name).

Here we see the well-treed street looking more mature; the photographer is looking south back towards the town centre. It was truly a sylvan approach to Bedford Park.

A delivery van can be seen at the entrance to Church Street, with the King William the IV pub and its hanging lantern nearer to the camera.

Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.

At the opposite end of the High Street, past the North Street junction, stands the Wesleyan church; its foundation stone was laid by the splendidly named Williamson Lamplouch in September 1868

Back in Surrey, the route reaches Haslemere; we look south-west along the High Street into the market place of this small town, with the 1814 Town Hall closing the vista.

Bath Street curves away northwards from the Square and its junction with the High Street.

The Assembly Rooms, dominating the right side of the street, opened in 1888 and was used for dances, lectures and public entertainment.

Here we see Back Street (left) and the Square (right), with the flamboyant Victorian double shop fronts of the grocers G H Stephens & Company on the corner (centre).

Going back under the railway viaduct, we ascend Toothill Lane to its junction with Leeming Street, which crosses the foreground.

This view is looking towards the High Street, and is greatly changed. All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.