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Once the site of a rambling royal palace largely burned down in the 1690s, the road gradually acquired government offices and the home of the prime minister in Downing Street - its entrance

The flint-faced buildings on the right are some of the original village houses, but virtually all the rest of the High Street buildings have been replaced.

London Road, the old A1 before the town was by-passed, becomes Lombard Street before turning right into Castle Gate with its many former coaching inns; it then turns left beyond the castle

All survives in Bridge Street, which leads out of the south- east side of the Market Place in the distance.

From Bridge Street we head north towards Victoria Square over the Chesterfield Canal, whose bridge parapets are in the foreground.

The High Street is looking remarkably quiet and empty – there are only a few vans and cars, and no road markings.

A few years earlier, one local commentator had written: 'the other side [of Earle Street] has been considerably improved with the growth of the local Co-operative Society.

Many local authorities were to save ratepayers the expense of erecting lamp posts by attaching their street lamps to the trolley poles, as we see here.

Many local authorities were to save ratepayers the expense of erecting lamp posts by attaching their street lamps to the trolley poles, as we see here.

The Assheton Arms, an old coaching inn, is at the bottom of Long Street, with the Williams Deacons and Salford Bank, designed by Edgar Wood, to its right.

This photograph shows the open market in New Market Street. Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

At the south end of the High Street Frith's photographer looks northwards beside the turning on the right into Hawleys Lane.

Swindon adopted the Public Libraries Act in 1942, and its first public library opened in McIlroy's departmental store in Regent Street the following year.

This is a view along East Street to the former Market Place, from the Greyhound Hotel (left) which faces the wonderfully elaborate Georgian shop-front of Beach and Company.

This view is taken looking north- west along Benyon Road towards the junction of Pound Street and Carshalton Road. The high brick wall in the distance belongs to Carshalton House.

This view looks south down the High Street past a motor bike with its acetylene headlamp towards the old Market House with its cupola.

Few national brands were to be seen on the main street, apart from Lipton's grocery and the Westminster Bank visible in this photograph; the remainder are locally owned and managed businesses.

Close to the road, the solid but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added

Spring afternoons provide a fine sight as some of these elderly 'ladies and gentlemen' parade through the streets and lanes.

Uppingham School's Memorial Hall and classroom block dominate the street, replacing houses which were demolished in the 1920s.

The camera looks towards Hampstead High Street, formerly Red Lion Hill.

Visit today, and see that the pub has gone, and that offices and shops of little architectural merit have come to dominate the street scene.

High street shoppers in 1931 were finding that prices were continuing to fall back to their pre-Great War levels.

The A15 is in fact a Roman road – Ermine Street.