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Properties on the seaward side are almost unique in Britain, as they front onto the beach without a road between.

A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border. Mushroom growing, brick making and fullers earth extraction were local industries.

A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border. Mushroom growing, brick making and fullers earth extraction were local industries.

Notice how the children stand unconcernedly in the middle of the road in this charming photograph!

The cannon is no longer there, and the monument, although still in almost the same place, now stands in the middle of a roundabout on a busy road.

Compared to the new road bridge (left) the railway bridge on the right seems so clumsy – its foundations had to be built under the water, and go down some 45 feet below the low-water mark

There is no motor traffic to be seen on the road. Beyond the shops are the residential houses of Hartington Street. On the left is H Ledgerwood's, a grocer's.

Bradley Road, which we see here, was the only section completed before local objections and the outbreak of hostilities shelved the plan indefinitely.

This rare shot shows the old turnpike cottage (left) at Holme Toll Bar, before the corner was cleared for road widening, looking westwards from Stoborough to East Holme.

Their offer to build a road to the church was declined.

A row of houses was built on the old road to Lampeter and another on the street to the church (visible on the right).

Three young boys in the distinctive uniform of Christ's Hospital school at Horsham, accompanied by a lady, pass by the 16th- and 17th-century cottages which stood at the beginning of Farnham Road.

Bearing in mind that this was the Great North Road , the A1, which now by-passes the town, the scene is remarkably tranquil.

and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect on a pre-dual carriageway Great North Road

The newly widened road begins to rise in the distance up to Loftus, whilst the United Bus Company bus stops are placed in neat lay-bys.

When Frith's photographer visited Kings Langley in the 1890s, cattle wandered freely along the High Street; but by 1955, the motor car was firmly established as king of the road. He

This is now a one-way road system, and the van is going the wrong way! There are lots of thatched cottages in Crowland owing to the small town's close proximity to the Norfolk reed beds.

From the work-yard of George Dixon, builder and mason, we look down on a surviving Penrith institution, Brunswick Road Junior School.

South of the town, beyond the stock market, the Bridgwater Road crosses the River Brue, here canalised.

The new turnpike road that was built bypassing Mulberry Green destroyed the trade catering for the coach passengers.

In 1800, Aberaeron was little more than a farm and inn by the main coast road where a bridge crossed the Aeron.

Staines may have got its name from the stone- paved remains of a branch of the Roman road of Akeman Street, that once ran to the important Roman station of Ad Pontes nearby, or perhaps

Studs on the road surface mark the only traffic crossing in Kettering at this date. On the right, Gordon Thoday, with branches throughout East Anglia, sold dress fabrics.

Dorans the photographers sold their pictures here, and further on, in the middle of Pier Road, there was the Magpie Café, still today nationally famous for fish and chips.