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The signpost pictured here reminds us that Little Sutton straddles the main road linking Chester with Birkenhead.

We are looking out over Grange to Morecambe Bay from Charney Well Road, which rises steeply above the town. Now, houses occupy the slope in front of the camera.

The iron fence and bushes in the foreground at the junction with Meathop Road have now gone, and the old street lamp at its end has been replaced by a modern one by the side of the road

In this picture we have a wide road and little traffic.

Further along Nottingham Road, Frith's photographer looks eastwards towards Hill Top with the junction with Edward Road between the hedge and the wall.

This scene is largely unchanged today, with the lamp-post still pleasingly in the middle of the road, but there are road markings now.

A section of road near here buckled, and it remained closed for six months. Finally, the ground was stabilised and the road was repaired.

Around the corner in Elms Road (which retains many of its mid-Victorian villas) is the Henry Thornton School, within the same site as the Marianne Thornton (C327056) and also part of the Clapham Centre

The freedom of the road, when roadside parking was an inalienable right, can be seen in a view westwards to the Town Hall (centre) from opposite the Golden Road Cafe (far left).

The main road we see in this photograph is the busy A343 Andover to Salisbury route. At the foot of the hill is a junction. Left is for Nether Wallop and right is for Over Wallop.

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

South Road became so dominant that it altered the character and subsequent development of other areas within the town such as Commercial Square, Boltro Road, and the Broadway.

In 1879 the only development along Vann Road was two chapels: an Ebenezer Chapel built in 1852 just beyond the slate-hung Hazel Cottage, on the right, and a Methodist one, whose roof slope and gable

This follows the course of the old Roman road from London to Chichester, called Stane Street, which is nowadays the busy A24 road from London to Worthing.

This picture shows the Ormerod Road gates from inside the park. To the right is the Keeper's Lodge. Notice that the gates are decorated with the town's coat of arms.

It sits high on Dartmoor, alongside the Moretonhampstead to Princetown road, near where the East Dart river rises. The bleak moorland road to Moretonhampstead stretches out into the distance.

Off London Street, just before the King's Head, Dene Road is seen here dropping into London Street at the corner beside the King's Head. The thatched cottage on the left still stands.

The road on the right had an extremely steep gradient and was the old roadway before the Heads of the Valleys Road.

At the corner of the B4025 and the entrance road to Broughton Castle, we see the Saye & Sele Arms advertising Chesham & Brackley Breweries Ltd.

At the junction of Common Road and Slough Road, two College schoolboys, one carrying a cricket bat over his right shoulder, are seen walking past the 'Burning Bush'.

Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is seen from a barge loaded with timber.

There are no road markings on the road at this date. The undulating roofline of the houses in the High Street makes a very attractive scene.

This between-the-wars view along Beaconsfield Road shows the straight forest road and one lone delivery boy. Soldiers of the Portuguese army were stationed here in World War I.

Not much else is visible in this otherwise largely shop-less scene before the Great War, when the eastern half of the main road - which would become the A35 with the creation of the strategic Folkestone