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St Thomas Becket church is at the east end of Cliffe High Street, which runs west to cross the Ouse into School Hill and Lewes proper.

This evocative view, wholly unchanged today, is barely 200 yards from the busy High Street. The soaring parish church tower, carefully rebuilt following its collapse in 1785, closes the view.

Union Street, famous to sailors throughout the world, is the high road from Devonport to Plymouth.

Remarkably wide for Norwich, Ber Street was noted for its numerous butcheries and slaughterhouses.

This is a useful spot in the street: the Post Office is on the left, the Trustee Savings Bank is adjacent to the bus, and the shiny new frontage of the Co-op is second on the right.

On the far right a narrow street separates the old lifeboat house from the white-painted Rashleigh Inn, also in a prime location on the shore.

As Exmouth developed, residential streets such as the mostly Georgian Beacon Terrace were built on higher ground overlooking the sea.

Union Street, famous to sailors throughout the world, is the high road from Devonport to Plymouth.

At the bus stop we can look down the High Street at the houses and shops.

This view is looking north-westwards from the junction with North Allington, at the bottom end of South Street.

Despite Bridport's modern bypass, the main street is rarely as quiet as it is in this photograph.

We are looking east along Tavern Street from Cornhill.

The early period of its history has left a great deal of physical evidence in the street pattern as well as some buildings, while documentary references further flesh out the picture.

On the right of the High Street, the building with the ornate stonework is the Catholic Church of St Francis, built in 1884.

Bedfordshire brick and pantiles on the roofs place this row of cottages fronting on to the street in the early 19th century.

This photograph shows Cornmarket Street running down to Carfax, with the outline of Tom Tower dominating St Aldates on the far side.

The long main street of Dorchester probably established its present line at the time of the Romans, and has been used by travellers since.

This view of the High Street must have been taken from a bedroom window. The shops and houses mix with small workshops and boundary walls.

Union Street, famous to sailors throughout the world, is the high road from Devonport to Plymouth.

Where now heavy traffic pours both ways along this road, children played in the street early this century.

Duncannon Street is captured during preparations for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Ahead is the National Gallery, which has had seats built across its frontage.

A stroll around its streets and tree-lined walks can recapture the mood of Hardy's famous novel 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'.

Every year, children from the town's churches, chapels, and Sunday schools dressed in white and paraded through the streets. The custom survived until recent times.

This view looks north along Head Street, towards North Hill.This has always been an important part of commercial Colchester.