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The long main street of Dorchester probably established its present line at the time of the Romans, and has been used by travellers since.

This view of the High Street must have been taken from a bedroom window. The shops and houses mix with small workshops and boundary walls.

Union Street, famous to sailors throughout the world, is the high road from Devonport to Plymouth.

Where now heavy traffic pours both ways along this road, children played in the street early this century.

Duncannon Street is captured during preparations for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Ahead is the National Gallery, which has had seats built across its frontage.

A stroll around its streets and tree-lined walks can recapture the mood of Hardy's famous novel 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'.

Every year, children from the town's churches, chapels, and Sunday schools dressed in white and paraded through the streets. The custom survived until recent times.

This view looks north along Head Street, towards North Hill.This has always been an important part of commercial Colchester.

Ware is packed full of interesting buildings and streets, but nothing it has to offer surpasses Amwell End.

Situated on the High Street is The Studio, a Wealden Hall House, with a later gable on the left-hand side. This picture was taken before restoration.

Woolworth's is a little further up the street. The Corporation once operated a light railway to Barrowford and Colne from here.

St Michael's dates back to 1853 and was designed by Street, but was later enlarged.

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

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664. At some time during the 19th century the pub frontage has been modified so that there are continuous windows on two floors.

Burtons and Timothy Whites face one another across Union Street, drawing many shoppers to the town. However, Aldershot offers much more than shops.

High Street runs south from the church and is still lined by attractive houses, some timber framed, others in Georgian red brick.

Seen from the bridge, Andover Co-operative Society Ltd was in Bridge Street with a long river frontage. It would all be rebuilt about 1970.

The illegally-parked and shining Hillman Minx is a forerunner of the age of mass motoring, which will soon overwhelm the city's streets.

This photograph shows Cornmarket Street running down to Carfax, with the outline of Tom Tower dominating St Aldates on the far side.

At the bottom of Fore Street - down by the harbour and therefore handy for the maritime fraternity - are two pubs, the George and the Prince of Wales, both of which claim to be the oldest hostelry in

Remarkably wide for Norwich, Ber Street was noted for its numerous butcheries and slaughterhouses.

Note the absence of road markings and the caravan and bicycle parked along the street. Note also the Dulais Pharmacy, 'Gwyn Jones, Dispensing Chemist', on the right before the chapel.

The statue was later relocated to the top of Nevill Street.

Another view of the High Street looking towards Maidstone Bridge on a sunny spring day. Once known as The Great Bridge, Maidstone Bridge was built in 1879 to designs of Sir Joseph Bazalgette.