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This broad, open street is the newer part of Hawkhurst, seen in the days before modern motor traffic took over. The only vehicle visible is the fine coach parked up on the left by the tree.

This photo is slightly later than the above photograph; there is not much change to the High Street, but the cars are now looking recognisably modern - note the Morris 1000 saloon and van in

During the early 1920s, Broad Street was a busy part of Reading, bustling with cars, trams and shoppers.

Westover Road, with its clean-cut and dramatic lines, runs from the direction of the sea to the square; it is still an important shopping street.

This closer view of Market House also reveals the Crown Hotel (on the other side of the High Street and next to Larkinson's shop) which was the source of the Great Fire of Biggleswade in 1785.

Before the A34 ring road, through traffic passed along Northbrook Street - hard to imagine now!

The famous statue of Daniel O'Connell (1775 - 1847), the 'Liberator', which stands at the foot of O'Connell (in those days, Sackville) Street.

The narrow steeply- sloping Union Street, east of the church of St James, leads the eye northward out of town and towards the stark ridge of Peaked Down; its visible notch gives the down

This busy view looks north along Grafton Street, which links St Stephens' Green to the Liffey. In the foreground, the road curves to the left round Trinity College.

The High Street is relatively unchanged. Astonishingly, the plot boundaries, if not the buildings themselves, were established in the late 11th century.

How quiet Maidenhead High Street seems in this photograph, as the age of the motor car was just dawning.

This view, taken from St Peter's Street, shows the great parish church which dominates the west side of Norwich's great market-place.

It was also in Bridge Street that John Howard lodged when printing his work on prison reform.

Here we see the main street, with a policeman on traffic duty at the junction with Accrington Road outside the Whalley Arms.

The medieval bridge, built about 1340, crosses the Wensum into Bishopgate, which continues around the Cathedral boundary until it becomes Palace Street.

The Molesworth Arms Hotel, well placed on the principal street climbing through the town from the bridge, was said to be 'conveniently arranged and well conducted', and offered an 'omnibus to meet all

This busy street has many shops and cafes to serve both the locals and visitors, but some close for the winter. The shops and houses on the left back straight on to the sea.

Situated on Durnford Street, which runs parallel to Stonehouse Creek, the Royal Marine Barracks were built in 1867 using a mixture of Plymouth limestone and granite from the moors and originally housed

Taken some fifty years after photograph No 61493, this view looks along Trumpington Street in the opposite direction, with Corpus Christi on the right hand side of the road, and King's in the distance.

In King Street, east of the castle, this church has been redundant since 1981.

The medieval bridge, built about 1340, crosses the Wensum into Bishopgate, which continues around the Cathedral boundary until it becomes Palace Street.

In fact, visitors threading their way around the streets can admire a splendid array of Georgian and Victorian architecture.

More than 50 years before this photograph was taken, Bracknell was described in the county directory as 'a small village consisting of a long, narrow street, inhabited principally

New Road Side is here still a street of small, traditional shops.