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It was situated where College Street joins Goodramgate on the eastern side.

Amongst many other attractions, the museum has a reconstruction of a Victorian shopping street. Thousands of people flock here annually to this, one of the best-known museums in Britain.

At the turn of the 20th century Princes Street boasted a number of hotels. The most expensive to stay at was the North British at Waverley Station.

The gardens, the railway line and Princes Street occupy the area once covered by the waters of Nor' Loch.

Characterised by pointed arches and fine stonework, the old gate is also renowned for its statue of George III gazing down the High Street, dressed as a Roman and wearing a toga.

The tower, which signifies the eastern entrance to the High Street, was begun in 1492 and took seventeen years to complete, almost certainly because of ongoing financial difficulties.

To the west the Melton Mowbray road reaches the town centre via Westgate, a wide street seen here looking north-east towards Market Place.

Apart from the remains of the keep shown here, an arch from the outer gateway still stands in Quarry Street.

Horsham was known as the market place, but by the later 19th century the northern part was called the Carfax, a name possibly derived from 'Skarfolkes', used in 1524 for taxation purposes, or from the street

Today this little street remains charmingly old-fashioned, with bookshops and a millinery which makes hats for Ladies' Day at Ascot.

The library survives, but it is cut off from High Street by the ring road. It was built in 1905 with the help of a £3,000 donation from the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Stratford Road was first recorded in 1322, though it was just a trackway known as Shirley Street at that time. Shirley developed along it in linear fashion.

The bishop also set up schemes for the unemployed, paved the streets, built 50 cottages, endowed a boys' grammar school and financed extensions to the church.

This picture is, perhaps, more representative of working-class Rochdale and shows telephone wires and electric tram cables strung like knitting above the street.

The origins of this rambling building, which overlooks the main street, lie in a 15th-century farmhouse, and until the New Inn was built in the 1640s, it also served the village as its ale-house.

Ladies' hairdressers (the shop next door with curtained windows), however, were a less common sight on shopping streets.

The village derives its name from the fact that it was the location of Garstang's parish church, St Helen's, which lies beyond the cottages at the far end of the street.

Heysham old village is an attractive place, with an assortment of stone cottages lining the streets.

Lancaster was an important place throughout the medieval period, but although the pattern of many of its old streets remain, few of today's buildings pre-date the Georgian period.

In the High Street, the house (centre left) will soon be the shop of Henry Stile's gent's outfitters; in the centre are the Tiger's Head, landlord Edward Smith, and the gabled Boot Stores of 1905.

In the background, against the trees, the surviving spire of the 15th-century church looks down on this straggling village on the Romans' Stane Street linking London and Chichester.

Further down the High Street are the gas showrooms. Bishops Waltham is still remembered for having the only privately owned bank in the country.

The Street is the name of this lane joining Lower Farringdon to Upper Farringdon. In the far distance we can see a cottage which was owned in 1839 by the Rev John Benn, friend of Jane Austen.

We are looking from the Nag's Head Island side towards Bridge Street and the town.