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Church Street leads from the Market Square down to the Lancaster Canal, where a basin facilitated the handling of cargo on and off the barges.

Once called Stratford (the `street ford`), this was where the Roman road crossed the River Chelmer.

Early chain stores, including Home and Colonial Stores, International Tea Stores and Boots the Chemist, were all represented in Strood High Street by now; but older shops, like Mence Smith (on the left

With its jumble of streets and pleasing buildings of local moorstone, it has long been popular with visitors.

The previous church had been timber-framed and the village still has a number of timber-framed buildings; there is a particularly pretty one just across the street from the church.

A further view of the High Street taken eight years after photograph 35669, this time from closer to the columns of the Town Hall.

The 'Gordon' tram shelter have previously stood on Peel Street, and was demolished in 1953. After many delays the new bus station was constructed in 1963.

This wide street has many handsome buildings. In 1967, one of the Georgian residences with seven bedrooms, two acres and a heated-swimming pool cost £20,000.

Solid sandstone terraced houses line the Main Street of Castleton in Eskdale, on the northern edge of the North York Moors.

Notice the coat of arms above the corner of the street.

This picturesque village has cottages lining its winding streets, and the trickling sound of water can be heard from the river. This remains a nice village in which to enjoy a walk.

It would have been pleasant enough to live alongside a relatively up-market road of wide verges and young trees, illuminated by attractive street lighting.

In those days, when piles of seasoning timber would line the streets, Adams entertained two kings of England in his house.

Looking in the opposite direction to No S23030 (page 79), we can see on the right-hand site of the street two of the 48 public houses that could be found in the town in 1889.

We are looking along Albion Terrace into Station Street, with the impressive portico of the station entrance on the left in the distance. The railway arrived in Saltburn in 1861.

St Mary's Church was built between 1875-77 on the site of a former cotton factory in Buttermarket Street, close to the working-class districts which provided its congregation.

The left-hand side of the street, beyond the tall white facade of Robert's shop, would soon change dramatically with the construction of the Forge Shopping Centre.

Frith's intrepid photographer sought a high vantage point at Boots Corner for this view down Buttermarket Street.

Bridge Street was clearly Warrington's shopping centre in the 1950s. The west side offered some of Warrington's finest shops.

Road traffic was much lighter in the 1950s, but even then Sankey Street represented a major bottleneck on the main A57 Liverpool to Manchester Road.

Asco, the Accessories Supply Co, and the neighbouring shops on the left (now demolished) stood on the corner of Pinners Brow, a street name recording Warrington's former pin-making industry.

The River Brett flows parallel to the street on the right.

These views (below and pages 40-41) up and down Church Street would have been familiar to Dylan Thomas, who lived near New Quay in 1944, and to many visitors, who have to park their cars at the top of

Bradleys, on the right of the street, is an interesting premises.