Simply.

Watched a film about New York photographer-Joel Meyerowitz last night. In this very pre-digital recorded film, he states how he uses street corners as the focus of his street photography. How he used a static spot to allow the action to come to him and to occur and develop around him.
Took a leaf out of some of his astral street logic and stood for several minutes in the middle of Merthyr High Street just popping away. The results were more rewarding than I envisaged. I will definitely think about adopting a corner in future.