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Basildon's first new school—Swan Mead Junior & Infants, in Church Road—opened in April 1954. Kingswood was built soon after.

The road is unsurfaced, but the tramlines are clearly visible - there is a tram in the distance.

This scene remains virtually unchanged today, but it has been cut off from the High Street by an ugly ring road.

The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.

The village is situated at the crossing of the roads from Haywards Heath to Brighton and from Hurst to Lewes.

Parts of the High Street and Warwick Road were also destroyed. This is Mill Lane today, a pedestrianised passageway from High Street to Mell Square.

This was an important coaching route in the 18th and 19th centuries, part of the London to Holyhead road, which was improved by Thomas Telford in 1816.

The road is carried over the millrace by an 18th-century bridge. The River Gipping, made navigable in 1793, is off to the right, with locks which enable barges to go upstream.

The early 18th-century Bell Inn on the Eastbourne Road was one of several important staging inns in this village when Cobbett came here in 1822 and lauded it as being beautiful.

The building is now a private house, its responsibilities usurped by more modern shops a little further along the road to the left.

The photographer is looking along The Jamb from the junction with the High Street, towards Rockingham Road in the distance.

Newly opened in November 1965, the school stands in Gainsborough Road at the southern end of the town, and takes its name from the ancient stretch of woodland opposite its gates.

Round the corner to the Eastbourne Road, with The Bay Hotel on the right, the architectural quality drops sharply to typical seaside nowhere.

Between Canterbury and the sea, and built on a section of the Roman road which ran from Dover to Richborough, Eastry was once the site of a palace of the Kings of Kent, who divided their realm into 'lathes

The Roman road, where the remains of two Roman soldiers were found, was near Top Row.

The road is heading towards the old Cerebos salt factory on the outskirts of the village.

The Station Hotel stands to the left, and the road up to Liverton Mines rises in the distance.

Road access between the seashore cottages of old Saltburn and the new town required a steep incline, which has been the scene of some spectacular runaway vehicle crashes.

The new building in Grammar School Road opened in September 1940.

On either side of the road are the bus stops for the London to Lowestoft route.

In the background are the Harbour Hotel in London Road and the 1903 Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, paid for and opened by Lord Claud Hamilton, Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company.

On the corner of Low Road, leading to the King's Head, are houses called St Margaret and St Mary (centre left). The prominent jettied timber-framed building facing us is Waterloo House of c1540.

The coming of the motor car would soon congest the road at its approach to the narrow bridge across the river and traffic lights would eventually control this busy crossing point.

This view shows Penwortham Hill and the climb out of Preston on the Liverpool/Southport road. The newly-erected Penwortham War Memorial is on the right.