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At night, when the winding, sloping streets light their lamps, and the hotels and cafes around the harbour are alive with visitors, one might almost fancy that one was in a lively foreign seaport, especially

The top end of the main street in Penzance is dominated by the impressive classical frontage of the Market House and Old Town Hall, erected in 1837.

In the 1860s the economist Bagehot described Lombard Street, that runs to the right of the Mansion House, as 'by far the greatest combination of economical power and economic delicacy the world has ever

Behind the cross, Adam and Eve Street leads up to the former corsetry factory.

Some of the High Street shops and houses reveal a Dutch influence, with mansard roofs and ornamental gables. The blinds are down, it is a hot day.

Further down the street is a Tate & Lyle delivery van.

This view looks east from Bridge Street, past the Market House and along into Bell Hill.

The name sign 'East Street' has been reused on a 1960s replacement for the buildings on the right, while beyond the Gothic-style school soars the 280 feet tower and spire of St Wulfram's.

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change.

It is thought that their stone came from buildings in Gold Street which were demolished in 1887.

This is the junction of St Sepulchre Gate and the High Street. It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch.

The elegance of the pier was reflected in the broad streets of the town, which were built to resemble fine boulevards.

Duplicating an earlier shot from 1897, this view is looking westwards up East Street from the River Asker and East Bridge.

Even the street lamp is still there. The cottages may look the same, but the surrounding landscape has changed virtually beyond recognition.

This splendidly atmospheric view along the High Street looks across towards the great medieval minster church which dominates the city and the countryside for miles around.

Further south, High Street opens up to the river, the buildings terminating in an elegant early 19th-century five-storey warehouse with a hipped roof: more like a very tall villa than a warehouse.

Here the photographer looks along West Street away from the Market Place.

The view north along High Street is terminated by a white gabled building, now O'Neills pub. The road deviates to the right here, to tackle the climb of 150 feet up The Strait and Steep Hill.

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

The High Street was part of the original lane which ran through the old village to the sea.

A Swiss chalet where the writer penned his last work, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', sits in Rochester High Street.

This wide High Street has altered little over the years, although the proprietors of many of the shops have changed.

The striped cabin (right) supplied cigarettes, and down the main street was the Eagle and Child inn.

It is mid-afternoon in the quiet main street of Sandgate, with a single-decker tramcar passing by on its way to Folkestone.