ABSTRACT
On the following pages we describe 15 streets of varying shapes and sizes. We start with Cardiff’s wonderful arcades, which if you were being picky aren’t really streets at all. The streets that follow take us from the planned streets of Brighton’s New Road on the south coast to Aberdeen’s Union Street in the north. In the west of England we go as far as Chapel Street in Penzance but still further to the west is St Patrick’s Street in Cork. We have great commercial streets like Kensington High Streets and Byres Road and more quirky streets with independent shops like Portabello Road or Exmouth Market. Then there are the great set-pieces, like Hope Street, strung between Liverpool’s two cathedrals, and
Grey Street, winding up to Newcastle’s Grey’s Monument. The variety is huge but they all do that thing that all good streets do: they are both routes from A to B and good places to be.
