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The stone half way down the other side of the road marked the entry to Mill Lane which led to Mill Street, the main entry road to the town for many centuries.

All the buildings in the foreground were demolished for the ring road. The library survives, but it is cut off from High Street by the ring road.

The medieval leper hospital of St Leonard's was in Melford Road, where Colneys Close is named after John Colneys, who founded the hospital in 1372.

Some ten years later than W164006 and W164004 (page 44), this photograph looks south along Wallasey Village with Leasowe Road going off to the right.

Apart from the Baker's Arms on Barkby Road corner and an extended bank, the village's main shopping area is now but a memory.

Note the symmetry of this early residential development on Lake Road East with its grand row of houses book-ended by conical towers.

We see the new St Mary's church from the north side of Longfleet Road, which is now very busy. To the right is the entrance to Parish Road, which is named after a former vicar.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

Even as late as the early 17th century, there was no road linking Chatteris with Ely.

This is one of several short parades of shops along the main road through Penn. Built in the early to mid 20th century, it remains largely unchanged today.

The road curves towards the town centre, passing the end of De Vere Road. The shop in the distance is now a bigger 'One-Stop Shop'. At the far end are the two gabled bays of the Old Rectory.

The Three Salmons Hotel, which stands on the A471 to Abergavenny, looks much the same today, except that it has now expanded to occupy the premises across the road.

This shows a very deserted unmade road leading into town, more familiar to motorists today, who have to slow down at the top in order to join the Bath Road into Devizes.

The Sussex Turnpike Trust was set up in 1749 to maintain the road from Hindhead Heath to Chichester with a tollgate at Kingsley Marsh (now Green).

The increase of traffic along this road means that the junction is now almost impossible to recognise.

The only casualty since 1899 is the wall on the right, sacrificed for road widening at the junction with Hardwick Road. Sellwoods on the left had only just been built.

For most people, the village of Heswall is centred on this road, the A540, linking Chester with all the towns along the western side of the Wirral.

The road running beside Newlands Bottom is to the left of the valley at this date, unlike the present road, and is now a bridleway.

Standing on the corner of Canonbury Road and Grange Road, this windmill has a fascinating history.

This view was taken in Albert Road looking down Widnes Road.

Looking south down the main road towards Wilmslow, with the road over to Macclesfield going off to the left, affluent Cheshire is driving towards the viewer and the young couple wait for

The new road takes the land to the right of centre, and is only a few yards away from the apex of the obvious bend. The old road still marks the boundary of Dartmoor National Park.

The A3 London to Portsmouth road crosses the Farnham to Chichester road here, and then, as now, the crossroads are traffic-light- controlled.

Cars queuing to come out of Lion Green Road by Thomas Ebbutt`s undertaker`s business anticipate the need for traffic lights at this junction of two busy A roads.