We have put together a short movie to show the service in action:
As Jamie states, its handy in that it let’s you directly request a street view thumbnail with nothing more than a postcode.
The format of the request looks like this:
http://geo.jamiethompson.co.uk/streetview/[POSTCODE]_[WIDTH]x[HEIGHT].jpg
You can try it out here - just type in your own postcode.
Thanks go to Dr Chris Speed for picking this up, you can follow Chris on twitter.