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We are looking along Acre End Street. The thatched building on the right housed the premises of Acre End Stores, run by T Hall & Son.

The house to the right of the arched entrance at the far end of the street is where the poet Chaucer once lived.

But this 1950s view of Long Street shows some of the older, Georgian cottages at the top end of the village, where annual horse and sheep fairs were held until the late 1960s.

This village view looks north past Street Farm on the right, and although the big barn on the right has gone, the houses all remain.

The policeman on point duty at the busy junction of the High Street, Eastgate, and Star Hill stands in the seemingly flimsy protection of a small, wheeled cubicle to carry out his duties of directing the

After a serious fire in 1975, the 18th-century building with the black cross facing us at the end of Bridge Street, formerly the Crown Inn, was demolished; this caused a major outcry.

In the 1960s two large housing estates were laid out on the east and west of the main street, and in 1972 a Village Society was formed to oppose the continued growth.

This is the seaward end of the High Street, which runs down onto the beach. In an earlier period this area included beautiful sheltered gardens and a bandstand.

In the distance Crabbe Street, named after the local poet the Rev George Crabbe, who inspired the work of Benjamin Britten, leads down to the beach and the lifeboat station.

Kington was also once described as having a 'maze of narrow streets … where too many of the old houses have been refronted, but still have the attraction of a wildly irregular skyline'.

Part of it was a pumping station used to pump sea water to standpipes dotted around the town for Council workmen to draw off water to wash down the dusty streets.

Hardly changed today, this substantial, good- looking pub still stands opposite Prince's Corner at the end of the High Street.

Designed by Thomas Robinson and completed in 1887, the red-brick town hall deserves a more spacious and prominent setting than Market Street.

The grace of Fleet Street in the previous picture is counterpointed by the timeless nature of this rural view, taken the same year on the outskirts of Torquay, possibly at Cockington.

Along the street in the picture was a special bath house, as well as a number of new hotels and lodgings.

The cobbled Main Street, with The Sun Inn at the top, remains very much the same today.

The cliffs of Skinningrove can be seen in the centre distance of this delightful view, looking from Brotton High Street in an easterly direction towards the coast.

This view, looking into the High Street from the market square, is distinguished by the crocketted and slender medieval Market Cross - a reminder of Irthlingborough's 11th-century market town origins.

Sixty-five years on from photograph No 26547, and not very much has changed, save for the more abundant foliage, and Trumpington Street now echoing to the sound of cars!

This renowned thoroughfare, a continuation of Oxford Street, links the West End with the City. It takes its name from the Oldbourne Bridge which once spanned the Fleet River.

Most hotels charged around 5s for dinner, although the Victoria in West George Street charged just 3s 6d.

Conceived and built by John Nash in 1813, this famous thoroughfare has been said to represent 'the highest beauty of street architecture.'

By 1965 it was the last surviving cathedral lych gate in Britain, but was demolished, along with Lich Street, to create a dire shopping precinct.

Elizabeth I granted it a royal charter in 1561, at which time it was located in St Swithin's Street, only moving to its present location on Upper Tything in 1868.