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This view shows the new Maternity Unit, which opened in 1961 on a site off Cottingham Road, opposite the boating lake.

After crossing the ancient causeway known as the King's Highway (which runs from Belsars Hill at Willingham to Aldreth) we reach the green at Haddenham and the road to Ely.

The Cowper Arms lies at the corner of Colyer Close and Station Road.

The Savoy Café is on the right, and further down hill across the road Mazda lamps are for sale close to the inn sign.

Built at No 65 Oxford Road, the church was opened in 1964 after years of fund- raising.

This thatched cottage with its little garden stood in Pondhu Road, in the valley bottom to the south west of the town centre.

Modern houses proliferate in Tanworth now, but the old chestnut tree (glimpsed top left) still casts a shade over the green, and the Bell Inn (top and bottom left), across the road from the

Main Street crosses Church Street, the A612, to become Station Road as far as the railway line, which runs between the village and the river.

They have stood on this location, at the edge of the green on Broxhill Road, since about 1829.

This curious name apparently comes from the Latin for a tenth or ten, the ten being iron rods or 'dickers' which a medieval ironmaster paid as his rent for the land hereabouts.

Indeed, the story is told that the road was so bad that one of the potholes was filled with a fully harnessed dead cart-horse.

Bramley Road to the south has an avenue of horse chestnut trees.

On both sides of the road the white lines seem to go past the central reservation – this would not be so today.

The Jolly Miller on Hook Road has a skittles evening each week. It has ten bedrooms, all with televisions - they would not have had these in 1955. A single bedroom costs £39 including breakfast.

The Baptist church is in regular use in Junction Road.

Viewed from the raised footpath, the summit of Perrymount Road merges into the Broadway.

Tunnels were pierced though these peaks for the railway, and in later years a road tunnel was also blasted through.

In days gone by there was a gate across the road at this point which barred the way to passers-by, who could only proceed on payment of a toll.

East of Throwley Road is Manor Park. It grew in area as a result of purchases and gifts, but started out as a war memorial park.

The roof of the Market House, to the left of the picture, dates back to the 16th century and was preserved when road-widening operations took place in 1937.

Another view along the Welland towards Town Bridge, over which the old Great North Road crossed into Lincolnshire.

The road deviates to the right here, to tackle the climb of 150 feet up The Strait and Steep Hill.

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

Again we see an empty road, but motor traffic has made an appearance in the form of two parked motor cars, one alongside a striped sign post to Clitheroe.