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The pedestrians can safely cross the road without special signals - the traffic lights seem almost redundant.

Perhaps modern road improvements have either scared it away or buried it altogether.

Parking restrictions were yet to descend upon Surbiton, and the few drivers after the Second World War have the roads to themselves.

Parking restrictions were yet to descend upon Surbiton, and the few drivers after the Second World War have the roads to themselves.

The Macclesfield road rises in the distance to the bridge over the railway line, with the station and livestock market going down on the left.

On the north side are the grounds of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, which are mostly in Berkshire; but its Greek Doric gate lodges front London Road.

The parish church behind the holly hedge to the left at the corner of Ripley Road is partly Norman.

By the road is a rather good war memorial, while to the east there are views of Hampton Court Palace and the 1930s river bridge, designed partly by Lutyens.

Further south, Nos 32 and 34 jut into the road, narrowing it considerably.

The river is immediately beyond the road in front of Brick Alley Almshouses, but until 1884 there were cottages, a pub, warehouses and wharves fronting the river.

The third (bottom left) was taken looking along Riverside north with the gardens of the Red Lion on the right; this was a most exclusive seating area, but it has since been lost to road improvements

Nearby are the ruins of a Roman fort, a medieval castle and a church, and there is a still-extant Roman road.

There is a larger shop across road. A woman waits patiently against the fence by the pond; she has just come from the swimming pool area.

In 2000, the Eel Pie Club was founded in the Cabbage Patch pub in London Road to 'preserve and continue the heritage of Richmond Rhythm & Blues in the area where it all began in the 1960s - Eel

However, through the trees on the extreme left is the disruptive A447 Hinckley Road, with all its associated bustle and noise.

The church, mainly of the 14th century, stands within a grassy churchyard, close to the A6 Leicester-Loughborough Road.

Just east of the village, where Main Road curves towards Bants Lane, stands this large factory, which employed over 3,000 people in the 1960s.

The Albion Temperance Hotel is nearest the road. When this block was demolished it was replaced by a car park.

Stone flag pavements line the road. Brickmaking is an important local industry: a hun- dred million bricks were made a year in the 1970s.

The projecting property with the Georgian sash windows was Mrs Martin's Drapery, long since lost to road widening. Opposite is the London Inn, built in 1766.

The pinch-point in the road caused the local council to toy with the idea of demolishing the listed Toll House in the 1970s, but local views were listened to and it remains today.

With today's traffic, this would not be a wise place to stop, as this road can be very busy! The huge cedar tree towering over the 'New Laid Eggs' sign was blown down by a gale in the 1970s.

Owing to health problems the complex closed in 1936, to be replaced by Newton Road Baths in 1939.

We are looking southwards from Walnut Tree Corner, and London Road is deserted apart from the wagon standing outside the Gate public house (centre left).