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Down Commercial Street is the Market House, with a clock tower built by John Francis Basset in 1866. The Bassets of Tehidy were important mineral lords in this once-great copper and tin mining centre.

The Town Hall, on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used

This lovely street, fringed with cobbles, leads down to the White Lion Inn and the old church, where the poet William Cowper, 'England's sweetest and most pious bard', was laid to rest.

, Llandudno preserves much of its Victorian flavour, with its sweeping promenade faced by numerous hotels, its expanse of sands between the headlands of the Great and Little Ormes, its pier, its wide streets

It landed on a row of cottages in Chapel Street opposite St Anne's Church, killing seven residents. The event is commemorated by the Whitehead Garden.

The nearby Sheffield Park estate built the modern mock half-timbered houses at the end of the street.

It made the corner for Somerset Avenue, a name which with others like Tennyson Avenue, Southwell Road and Holborn Street, might have brought a touch of the supreme Brighton.

North-west from Kingsbury we go down Buckingham Street, passing the Wesleyan Church, now Aylesbury Methodist Church.

More survives on the right as far as the middle distance, where the rear yard of Marks and Spencer's has punched a substantial hole in the street frontage.

Rich merchants and tradesfolk built houses for themselves along the town's streets, which is why grand dwellings and humble cottages can be seen cheek by jowl.

However, the town was served originally by a chapel-of-ease from Hellingly parish, which may explain why Hailsham's church is built behind the High Street rather than within it.

It contains some good townscape, but it is somewhat traffic- blighted, more so now than in this 1950s view, which looks east along the High Street towards Market Square.

We are at the top of the street seen in photograph no 71178.The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was The Brown Cow.

On the north side of the High Street, behind the Mini Traveller stands the Westminster Bank, previously Ellwoods; next door is R & O Hall, newsagents, who later became Buxton`s paper shop and is now

He had moved across the leafy street from the New Inn, which in his time as landlord was known as the Duke of Wellington.

This wonderful view of the market cross and the High Street was possibly taken from Malmesbury Abbey.

A fine car approaches the High Street by the Parliament Building (right), and a dog feels safe enough to trot down the middle of the road.

Storah's outfitters and drapers is in the centre on the corner of Church Street. The St Dunstan's factory wing (right) was built in 1919.

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

The picture shows Friday Street, with the historic Plough Inn on the left, obscured from view by a large tree.

Both Sheep Market and All Saints Street lead down to what was the Great North Road, but Stamford has since been bypassed. The town bus station is on the right, on the site of Stamford Castle.

Dunstable Street housed most of the 'household' shops in 1955 - the situation has considerably altered since then as the town has expanded its boundaries.

Here we look along the High Street towards the junction with Church Lane. At the end is the Hind's Head Hotel. The Ringers on the right is now the Fat Duck Restaurant.

This road was cut into High Street to give access to Chesham's terminus station on the Metropolitan Railway branch opened in 1889.