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Here, in Walton High Street, the occasional pony and trap seems to be the only contribution to heavy traffic.

Facing Main Street is the early 19th-century coach-house and stable to The Old Hall.

West Street is the commercial heart of Fareham, described by Thackeray, who spent his school holidays here, as 'a dear little old Hampshire town'.

This view is taken from the southern end of Foregate Street, looking south along The Foregate and The Cross. On the left is the Hop Market, resplendent in red terracotta.

This is the north end of High Street, which seems to have had an abundance of shoe shops in 1950: Trueform (on the left) was a popular chain for decades, and Olivers (on the right), is still trading today

Perhaps the most striking thing about this picture, to modern eyes, is the long line of cars, for High Street is now pedestrianised.

The older part is more interesting and certainly more picturesque, with its streets of quaint old buildings clinging to the banks of the Hamble.

Main Street c1955 Victorian visitors had a number of inns to choose from when seeking sustenance in the town, some acting as fully-fledged hotels.

Through Stone Bow we look back across the setts to its rear, with the High Street stretching away into the distance through the archway.

In 1775 the town's new gaol was built in Queen Street, but this was demolished in 1845, one year after Horsham's last public execution on the special gallows erected outside.

West Street was originally part of the main route through Sompting, linking it to Broadwater and North Lancing.

Part of Beeding's Bridge is just visible on the small rise at the far western end of the High Street, next to the Bridge Inn on the left.

Nestling in the borough of Maidstone, this village is made up of three main streets.

Boys on bicycles, shoppers and motorists throng this street, and there is every sign that the public library (left) had a regular flow of readers who still did not have the luxury of owning a newly invented

Stone setts pave the street and unobtrusive traffic lights control its junction with Manchester and Blackburn Roads.

This is a pretty scene with a handsome ash tree in the background, and two children in a quiet side street.

There is very little grazing in this street apart from the gardens fronting the houses on the left - fortunately, the garden gates are all securely closed!

Alton's long High Street includes various 18th-century buildings as well as some from an earlier period.

particularly prone to flash floods; in the drought summer of 1976 a sudden downpour changed the stream into a raging torrent which threw cars around like corks and deposited several feet of mud in the streets

Beyond, at the corner of Silver Street, is the old Constitutional Club of 1895, lots of blood red terra cotta, with the Usher Gallery beyond.

Note Tompkinson's Garage with its petrol pumps further up the street.

Note Tompkinson's Garage with its petrol pumps further up the street.

An old lamp-post stands at the end of the street.

This photograph shows Lordens Hill on a somewhat gloomy day.There are few cars parked along the street, but in those days private car ownership amid working families was still something of a novelty.The