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We are in Heathcote Road, looking down the High Street, with the grounds of the Staff College visible in the background.

London Road and the High Street were the main shopping areas in the early 1900s. The roads were still made of compressed dirt, and motor vehicles were uncommon.

A less widely used path is that below the castle walls on the right, which winds around from the main entrance to Mill Street.

At the western end of the High Street we see the shops of the smaller retailers and specialist craftsmen.

Originally named after its fine view overlooking the jetty, this street retained its name when the pier was built.

Here we see the open-top trams of the High Street to Morriston and Cwmbwrla service. Horse-drawn until the turn of the century, the trams provided much manure for Swansea gardeners.

Leyburn, once the largest community in mid Wensleydale, boasts three squares, the largest of which is the sloping, rectangular Market Place, from which the High Street seen here leads.

Looking down the steep Main Street of Robin Hood's Bay, across the pantiled roofs of the picturesque village to the sweeping curve of the bay and the headland of Old Peak or South Cheek in the background

The houses lining Cheap Street date mainly from the 17th century, but some are earlier.

The small 18th-century thatched cottage was perhaps built at the same time as the rather grand red brick house further up the street.

Two doors away at 55 High Street, previously known as Victoria Villas, was T H Webb the grocer's, which used these premises from 1928 until 1970.

This view looking back towards the Greyhound shows the High Street before the major developments of the 1980s and 1990s.

We are looking down the Main Street of the charmingly-named hamlet of Appletreewick in Wharfedale, with the prominent 1,550ft fell of Simon's Seat in the background.

Lambton Hall is situated to the north-east of Chester-le-Street. Work began in the late 1790s, when William Henry Lambton had an old castle on the site dismantled.

On the right, the warm, brown fletton brick tower of Sir Giles Scott's Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of the Assumption soars above the surrounding buildings lining the broad street.

The church of St Peter, in North Street, has a superb Norman doorway, possibly the best in the county (so the experts say), and the church has further Norman architecture inside.

This view shows Castle Street before its partial redevelopment in the 1960s.

This view is along Eastgate, east of the crossroads with Northgate (‘gate’ being Danish for street, rather than gate) and Minster Yard.

This famous junction was once known as Regent Circus and developed out of Nash’s elegant modelling of Regent Street.

A horse and carriage approach from the direction of the High Street.

Beyond Watergate Street is the Roodee, Chester's race course, where the Chester Cup is raced for every May.

Beyond Watergate Street is the Roodee, Chester's race course, where the Chester Cup is raced for every May.

Modern Eastleigh is a grid pattern of late 19th-century and early 20th-century streets, with typical suburban fringes stretching out towards Southampton and Winchester.

Tower Street, its houses mostly mid-Victorian terraces and semi-detached villas, some dated 1879 and 1880, has its vista closed by one of England's most stunningly effective buildings: the Boston Stump