I’m not sure when this happened but Google’s streetview seems to have been expanded to cover a lot more places in the UK. All the locations I tried on my iPhone now come up with some really good quality pictures, and the data doesn’t seem to be much more than about six months old. Try your own post code and see what comes up, and if you want a rather odd picture of a street lamp try searching for “Victoria Esplanade, Mersea” and pan round to the seaview.
Odd pictures aside, this is now a pretty useable service.
At least you have street view. I don’t have it anywhere I go in the US.
Never mind. I wasn’t using it right. D’oh!