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The Black Lion public house on the right was originally on the opposite side of the road. In 1793, the site that now carries the name was known as the Sow and Pigs.

This architecture is not exciting, but very user-friendly: a corner shop with others adjacent, each with their good timber fronts, and on the opposite side of the road The Bell pub, making up a standard

Cutting across the middle of the picture is the bridge carrying the Caledonian Railway, while on the far right is the Victoria Road bridge.

The old Infirmary, designed by John Wing and opened in 1803, fronted Ampthill Road; it was later expanded to be the Bedford General Hospital (South Site).

At the junction of Buckingham and Bicester Roads is the Royal Bucks Hospital.

In the closing stages of the war, a V2 nearly hit Commer Karrier's despatch shop in Biscot Road, destroying a house.

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

This view is taken at the north-west end of what is now the recreation ground, and the area beyond the carriage is now the teeming roundabout where the A24 London Road meets the A27 which runs from Eastbourne

The name of this lane, which runs north from the junction of High Street and Lewes Road, refers to Sackville College.

It was built for his Holyhead road and replaced a notorious ferry across the dangerous waters of the Conwy estuary.

We are just below the South Downs on the road between Midhurst and Chichester; this view looks across a footbridge over the stream that feeds into the Rother near Midhurst.

It is the point of destination of Telford's most famous road, now the A5, built to speed communication between London and Dublin.

Trade in the town increased dramatically once the Keighley to Kendal turnpike road opened, making Settle a premier coaching route.

Across the road can be seen one of Wisbech's familiar landmarks, the 'illuminated clock' on the clockmaker's shop, of Mr Dann.

Today a wonderfully complicated tourist sign stands here, with arms pointing down each of the seven roads that leave the square.

This view on the London Road reflects the changes brought about by the by-pass. The Chequers ceased to be a pub, although traces of the painted signs on the front wall can still be seen.

The inner relief road, the John Adams Way, has made a tremendous difference to this scene, and only the River Witham is the same.

Close to the road, the solid but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added

The road sign points down South Street which is almost invisible between the public building and the shops. Colmer`s Hill (right of centre) forms the distant skyline.

The house at the far end of the road on the High Street is now the Birdcage. This is the route to the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Museum.

The modern expansion of Groby as a Leicester suburb can be seen on the left, as the road swings towards Coalville.

Bakery (left) has long gone, and the building society on the extreme left in this photograph may be the old Anglian Building Society before they became the Nationwide and moved across the road

Here we have the old centre of the village, now by-passed by the main road. The Roman Catholic church of St Mary of the Angels with its free-standing spire dominates the centre of our photograph.

It predates the Roman road, now the A4, whose early track can be seen in the photograph. In 1883 it was the first site in Britain to be classified as an ancient monument.