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This view was taken from Cross Street corner. Princess Street is running away to the left, with the big bay window on the corner of the building.

Before this was built, the beach stretched much further inland and sand dunes often formed as far as Regent Street.

Great Western Railway motor buses like the one struggling up the hill past the Cornish Bank were introduced in 1903, but it was many years before the horse disappeared from the streets.

At this time, it is one of the main shopping streets in the town. At the far end on the left is the Ancient House, with its unmistakable overhanging upper storey.

The hipped-roofed two storey house beyond survives, but not those beyond, which went for the Friarage Rod/Exchange Street dual carriageway.

The southern end of the High Street widens slightly here, with houses and an inn just visible behind the line of trees.

For a few pence this old man walked the fashionable shopping streets of the West End proferring his handbills. On the wooden palm attached to his hat Renovo have printed their sales slogan.

As one Victorian commented, 'nature never meant herself here to be laid out in streets, and eligible plots of building land have to be taken as they can be found on the steep slopes'.

Here the local policeman chats to workmen, and the main street looks almost bereft of traffic. In the Victorian era there was a bustling market near the Bullring, and four annual fairs.

As one Victorian commented, 'nature never meant herself here to be laid out in streets, and eligible plots of building land have to be taken as they can be found on the steep slopes'.

On the left-hand side of the street, the ventilators of the oast house project from the roof.

Nikolaus Pevsner describes Welsh Row as 'the best street in Nantwich', and the variety of buildings we can see in this photograph goes a long way to explaining why.

The first stone church on this site, just beside the old Watling Street, was built soon after 1066, but the present building is mainly 13th-century, with a rather handsome 15th-century stepped-buttressed

The name of this busy shopping street is significant because it commemorates Lord of the Manor Colonel Humphrey Senhouse, who expanded the town greatly in the 18th century, and renamed it after

Castrol House, on the corner of Balcombe Street and Marylebone Road, was completed in 1960, when it caused much comment for being London's first American-style curtain-walled office building.

This gently curving street is to the east of the town. This view, looking back towards the town centre, shows both the Congregational and parish churches.

Appleton-le-Street's hill-top parish church of All Saints is famous for its tower, the lower part of which shows signs of Saxon work.

This view of the main street of Hawes looks towards the Market Place, where cars and buses are parked haphazardly on the cobbles.

Corporation Street linked this with the former municipal buildings in the town centre, hence the name.

There was talk of redeveloping the site, but fortunately it has not changed apart from the volume of traffic, which would make it dangerous to stand in the street to reproduce this photograph!

A major roundabout lies just off to the right, at the junction of Ormesby High Street and Cargo Fleet Lane, and this view looks north towards Middlesbrough.

Burtons has also gone, though the Victorian Grand Hotel on the opposite side of the street remains.

On the left-hand side of the street, the ventilators of the oast house project from the roof.

This view of St Paul's Street shows the Half Moon Inn as it was before being rebuilt in 1938, and before the entrance to Star Lane (left) was widened in 1923.