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The main Chawton to Gosport road passed the door and must have provided some of the trade. Upper Farringdon had its own blacksmith.

On the other side of the road the Great George has its familiar and rather curious two-sided sign— it has George Bernard Shaw and George Washington on it.

The broad pathway on the left was the main route through the Park, leading from Scarbrough Avenue to Sea View Road, and is now the line of the present Park Avenue.

The great cross rises from seven steps at the point where three roads meet. Geddington is famous for its May Day tradition of distributing bread throughout the village.

This wide, straight road leads to the intricacies of the rest of Midhurst.

In a road of rather mundane buildings is the Palace Theatre, a remarkable building designed in a Moorish style by the Robert Adam of theatre design, Frank Matcham, for Moss Empires in 1901, with a seating

Station Road looks a tidy place: the hedges are well trimmed and the roadway is clean. Each of the houses shows a differing style, with dormers, gables and bow windows.

The solitary horse-drawn carriage in the middle of the road hints at quieter, perhaps gentler times, even if life was in many ways harsher too.

By this date the area had expanded southwards, no longer impeded by the dingle, with a bridge facilitating an extension of the parkland towards Cliff Road.

Cardiff Road (pictured here) is a classic example of these new dwellings, with the finest houses executed by Dashwood Caple.

Before the buildings runs what is now the very busy road along the sea front. The ornate lamppost is no more, alas.

We have turned into Riverside, a delightful waterside road. On the right is the Anchor Inn, at this time owned by the brewers Strong & Co of Romsey.

The road now swings round into a car park, passing along the side of the Old Bakery.

Lloyds Bank is now Ken's Fish Shop, and motor traffic congests the road even out of season, forcing pedestrians to cross the river via a separate footbridge.

At the junction with Station Road, Frith's photographer stands by the war memorial with the churchyard behind him.

This one gives vehicle access, but if we head north away from the road we will find ourselves in one of the finest areas of the park.

The same line brought you to the starting point of the wonderful Antrim Coast Road. The excitement and style portrayed in this scene make modern experience dull.

It is hole in the road time again as the lads from Stourbridge gas works prepare to do their stuff.

This leafy suburb of Tunbridge Wells boasts a broad and spacious green, fringed by cottages and trees.

When the Alcester-Stratford road was turnpiked in 1753 a toll house was built on the Oversley side of the bridge, but it was later transferred to Hoo Mill Corner.

Rickinghall Inferior is to the left of the road, with Superior to the right.

Jan's Folly stands at the junction of the A45 and A5 trunk road. It was originally one of Telford's tollhouses on the London to Holyhead turnpike.

The church of St Mary Magdalene sits across the road.

The road on the left, Bailey Street, leads to the bailey of the old castle, and is now a pedestrianised shopping area.