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A small row of sandstone cottages were built at the time of the birth of the railway in Salthouse Road; these cottages still stand today, and represent some of the earliest residencies built in the emerging

In the 1980s and 1990s Bingley Hall, part of the County Showground on Weston Road, hosted several groups such as Black Sabbath and the Electric Light Orchestra.

The road southwards leads to Birling Gap, a coastline hamlet with spectacular scenery and chalk cliffs. The scene is similar today, but with more trees and buildings in the foreground.

Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.

This feature built by the road was an artificial waterfall and rustic bridge, with rocks giving the impression of a mountain scene.

The busy A428 Northampton to Bedford Road winds through the village from west to east, curving round the parish churchyard's rubblestone retaining walls.

This view looks north along Godalming Road with the 18th-century White Horse pub on the right, its Bargate stone walls painted white.

The troughs were removed just before the Second World War for road alterations.

This pleasant market town sits on the road from Thetford to Norwich, and was once a resting place for pilgrims - it still has a Guild Chapel dedicated to St Thomas a Becket.

On the opposite side of the road is The Snooty Fox, once called The White Hart, which in the mid 19th century was enlarged to include assembly rooms, where fashionable balls were held.

The popular Century Cinema was built in 1937 on the corner of Kingsway Road and Station Way.

This lovely building is at the southern end of the High Street, in the former market place where the High Street meets Worcester Road and St John's Street.

The High Street was the main road from London to Birmingham, and a toll gate was erected in 1769. This continued to operate until 1872.

The expansion we see here was directly associated with a major road link into London and the arrival of the Northern Line in 1923.

The bridge was constructed to give road access to the railway station built on the St Martin's side of the river in 1846; it was designed in the same Gothic Revival architectural style, and the parapet

On the other side of the road was a garage, which is now the Job Centre and the Sue Ryder shop. Then comes the HSBC bank followed by a building dated 1789 which now houses Calthop, solicitors.

Between the Conservative Club building and the stuccoed, wisteria-clad cottages at the Falconer Road end of the High Street, rises the Coronation Arch marking the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the

A few more survive in the surrounding countryside, and a couple of miles along the Manchester Road is the timber-framed Marton Church, one of the earliest and most complete examples in the country.

This view of the roundabout - a novelty in Congleton - shows where the south end of the bypass joins the existing main road.

Wooden shelters stand on either side of the road to the sea, which was at first named the Lumley Pullover and then Tower Pullover after the Clock Tower was erected; finally, it became Tower Esplanade.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London to Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

The timbered toll-bridge carrying the York road over the Ouse was erected in 1791, and was one of the earliest of its type in the country.

photographer looks north-west along the east bank wharves towards the site of the swing bridge that opened in 1908, five years after this view and now rebuilt in its turn as well as superseded by a road

photographer looks north-west along the east bank wharves towards the site of the swing bridge that opened in 1908, five years after this view and now rebuilt in its turn as well as superseded by a road