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This view looks north along the High Street past the now 'improved' junction with West Lane.

The large house with four bay windows, on the corner of Queen Street (Horn Lane) was built after 1870.

Here we see the top of the High Street, which is little changed today.The porchway on the left belongs to the Moot Hall, which was the town hall until 1974 and is now open to the public.

At Nos 1 & 3 High Street was J H Cole & Sons, a drapers (left). It was a high- class shop, and offered many services.

Little has changed at this junction on the roads to Newnham and Hinxworth, known as West End and Back Street.

The George and Dragon stands opposite the corner of Sun Street and adjacent to the site of the Sun public house (later the Victoria.) Only the 1950s 'Keep Left' sign differs from the view today.

This detail from R84037 (page 34) is a reminder of how our streets were once filled with a profusion of tobacco advertisements - Capstan, Player's, St Julien, St Bruno, Gold Flake, Senior Service - hardly

The shops, work-shops and brick houses are built on the street edge, while the older cottages and farmhouses are set back, possibly on the line of the original village green.

Since this photograph was taken, the street has become much busier with traffic; these days it would be difficult to stroll about without fear of being knocked down.

South-east of the town on Watling Street, the entrance to Towcester Race Course and Conference Centre is through this fine gate screen linking two lodges.

On the right, Davis the jeweller's and watchmaker's displays its wares, while on the opposite side of the street are advertising hoardings promoting a football match between Swindon and Port

On the right the three stylish ladies are approaching the Railway Tavern, now a private house, with its prominent sign over the street.

The view down George Street towards the church and the Market Square is still recognisable, though the garage just seen on the right has gone.

Buses still use the Broadway and Northbrook Street but today traffic cannot use the section of the latter thoroughfare much beyond Wheelers Garage during the daytime.

Much of the market trade was performed in the public houses which lined the High Street.

Fore Street and the triangular medieval market place are the heart of the town: here we see the south side, behind the Market House's stand of horse-drawn cabs.

Park Street 1892 North-west from Winsford we reach Exford, where the River Exe is but a stream.

With its long winding street and fine houses, Long Melford is one Suffolk's most celebrated villages.

The High Street was laid out when Walton became a tourist destination, with shops to cater for most needs.

Clovelly clings to a cliff, and its street is a steep, cobbled flight of steps. Villagers still use donkeys and sleds to carry goods to and from their cottages and the tiny harbour far below.

Here the photographer looks down St Thomas Street into Friary Walk, with the corner of the churchyard wall on the right.

The main entrance to the churchyard where Church Street turns left to become Parsons Fee is distinguished by a pair of elegant early 18th-century gate piers in fine-jointed red brick surmounted by stone

With Kipling's 'blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs' surrounding it, the village runs up a valley from the sea, climaxing beyond the High Street on the Green with its pond, where Kipling lived.

Situated in one of the most picturesque valleys in this part of the county, and spelled as Cidihoc in the Domesday Book, this peaceful view of the village street lined with well-built cob and