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The High Street appears quiet with very little traffic; a road sweeper on the left goes about filling his three-wheeled rubbish cart.

Even though barely a dozen people were eligible to vote, the inns set their barrels out on the street, and it is said that 'the Bletchingley cobbles ran with beer'.

Chapel Street has changed drastically since this picture was captured. There are now traffic islands in the middle of the road.

Lime Cottage, jutting out near the end of the street, is dated 1904. On the near right is Tenby Cottage, next to the old post

The road is widening as we look back towards the High Street. Owen the pharmacist was at No 61 (right) until 1958, next door to the King David Inn, which was to close in 1973.

We are looking down the street in the opposite direction to photograph B672001, with the Forge Hammer now on the right.

Shatz & Sons (fourth from the right) was a furnishing business established in 1891, with a wholesale warehouse in the High Street and a showroom in Post Office Lane.

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.

This is a view of the street looking south.

This view of the minster's north side from the High Street also shows the railings which once surrounded it.

The only person on the street is a girl holding a baby by the house opposite the barn.

Next door below is the agent for Pullars the dyers – they have crossed the street since photograph 28638 was taken. The only traffic is a horse and cart.

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

By now there is both horse-drawn and motor traffic on King Street.

Thus Middle Street has lost most of its historic character, and has utterly disappeared at its southern end.

As we look back up East Street, the focus of the view is the Market Hall.

Looking from South Street the general appearance of Victoria Road has changed little in the last 50 years.

This is a street mainly of 16th- or 17th- century timber-framed cottages.

The photographer stood at the northern end of the High Street for this picture. To modern eyes the phalanx of cyclists and two visible policemen lend an essence of quaintness.

The reverse view from D69020, looking south towards the ancient cross-roads of Watling Street and the Icknield Way.

We have now passed through Stonebow into the southern part of the High Street, which grew up along the old Roman road south of the walled city.

For several days in June every year this street was thronged with horses and dealers during the annual Horse Fair, when up to one thousand animals were sold.

It is one of a number of churches that had the street on which is stands renamed after it.

Similarly, the Ram Inn Hotel (the white building further down the street) also enlarged to include its neighbour.