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The village side streets are reminders of local farmers who long ago made their living off the land here. In the early part of the 20th century the nearby wharf was still a bustling place.

This view was taken looking west down Gold Street from in front of All Saints' Church. Boots the Chemists have now left County Chambers on the opposite corner.

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

With its labyrinth of narrow, pitching streets, its broad stretches of golden sand, its fishing fleet, and welcome shelter from the prevailing south westerly gales, it has been praised as 'the finest spot

The narrow, twisting High Street is flanked by buildings of all shapes and periods, many hung with the characteristic dark blue slates.

There was once a railway crossing at the bottom of Commercial Street, the main business centre of the town.

By the 1960s the addition of road markings indicating the one-way traffic system are now visible in the High Street, and road signs are positioned by the market cross.

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.

Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner. The premises have since been converted into a private house.

High Street Gate, also known as the North Gate, is a reminder that the city and Cathedral Close live two different lives.

A view from Church Street showing the ornate tower, the south porch with a priest's chamber above, and the crenellated south aisle.

Familiar high street names were putting in an appearance: Marks & Spencer and Halford's Cycle & Motor Store. Bond's was a department store – 'The House For Value and Distinctive Ideas'.

The east end of Oxford Street is ahead. To the right, where hair cuts are advertised at four pence, is Tottenham Court Road. The number 7 bus on the left is heading into Shaftesbury Avenue.

The fields attached to that farm are now Rowley Road, Pilgrim Road, York Street, the Grammar School playing fields and Boston College.

It is easy to see how this narrow Hawkshead street got its name, as it is paved by flagstones.

The courtyard of the New Inn is easily reached from Northgate Street.

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

Fore Street is exceptionally narrow at this point, where the King's Arms with its slate-hung upper floor is rather lost in the middle distance.

Many of the buildings along the main street are imposing, three-storey houses, dating from the period when the town was a centre for lead-mining, cotton and worsted manufacture.

This is the long, staid High Street of this small village on the banks of the river Lea viewed from the opposite direction from photograph No 81859, with the Pied Bull over on the left, and the bow-fronted

We are looking north along the High Street.

970ft above sea level, Slack Top is a short distance from the cobbled streets of Heptonstall and was large enough to sustain the massive Mount Zion Baptist chapel (1878).

The village of Portloe (meaning 'bay with pool') is one of Cornwall's best-kept secrets - a tiny, rocky fishing cove with narrow streets and the fine 17th-century Lugger Inn.

Chapel Street is part of the A4 London to Bath road. Before the M4 motorway, when this picture was taken, this was the main route to the west out of the capital.