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Tregenna Place and its continuation of the High Street are still the main thoroughfares into the harbour area of St Ives.

The main street is deserted. Lower Bentham stands 15 miles east of Lancaster on the slopes of the Pennines.

Viewed from North Load Street, Glastonbury's Market Cross was built in 1846 on the site of a medieval covered cross and fountain.

Liphook had begun to expand by the time this photograph was taken; its streets were characterised by neat rows of Victorian and Edwardian houses.

The Kinglake Monument has gone, and the streets around have created a traffic junction here, with obvious parking restrictions. Greater changes were still to come.

This winding cobbled street, edged with handsome medieval timber-framed houses with flint-faced ground floors, was anciently known as Houndgate. A fire destroyed many of its buildings in 1507.

The Hippodrome Cinema on Main Street replaced an old smithy, which was demolished in 1913.

The Victorian old town hall is on the corner of Castle Street, and in the right foreground is the Spinning Wheel, which still stands and dates from about 1600.

Until the by-pass opened in the 1990s, Northleach High Street was chock-a-block with heavy traffic. Today the scene is more reminiscent of this peaceful scene from the past.

Beyond the terraced streets of the village is Woodchester Mansion, set in a remote valley and keeping its secrets within an unfinished masterpiece of Victorian architecture; mysteries and

Christchurch Road, seen here as it enters Boscombe, must be one of the longest streets in England, as it runs the full distance between Bournemouth and Christchurch.

Local children play unconcerned by traffic in the middle of the street.

This photograph shows the narrow twisting Main Street constrained beneath the mountain.

Up until just over a hundred years ago, a watercourse, or lode, ran down the centre of this street.

The High Street runs alongside the River Leven, where the young Cook must have played as a youth.

The Millennium Stone, a natural stone boulder underneath which lie two time capsules from the local school and the Baptist chapel, was placed on the left-hand side of the street to mark both the millennium

This view looks along Gloucester Road from its junction with the High Street beside the Market Hall.

On the left-hand side of the street, the building with the bay window, once the Castle Hotel and then the Co-op, is now Mackays clothing; while the premises to the right, occupied for many years by Folley's

The street is dominated by its distinctive town clock. It is hard to believe that this scene was almost lost some 30 years later in plans to 'reconstruct' the heart of the town.

From Sheep Street the driveway to a tier of wide steps approaches the church.

Many picturesque thatched cottages and flintstone houses line the street. The village general stores and post office once housed its own manual telephone exchange.

This view looks down Bexhill's original High Street. In the distance is Barrack Hall, occupied by a garrison of troops during the Napoleonic Wars.

Electric trams first ran in Glasgow in 1898 on the Mitchell Street to Springburn route.

Though described in the mid 19th century as 'a poor town lying among hills', Stratton with its narrow streets is blessed with many fine old houses.