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The year after this picture was taken, a new line for the road was proposed.

On the south side of Western Road is the Recreation Ground; it was enclosed in 1885, having formerly been part of Hailsham common. In this view the road is off to the right out of shot.

Known by locals as 'The Cages', the three rows of lime trees were planted on the north east side of the road in the early 1840s.

We are looking west as the A387 drops down into the hamlet to the bridge over the River Seaton at the bottom of the hill, before the road climbs up the other side on its way to Looe.

The A127 arterial road (in the foreground) was opened in 1925 by Prince Henry, and succeeded Wash Road as the main east-west route through Laindon.

The church still stands in Bayswater Road at its junction with Groveland Road.

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.

Stratford Road was first recorded in 1322, though it was just a trackway known as Shirley Street at that time. Shirley developed along it in linear fashion.

Stanway Road was created in the 1930s along with several other roads in the area, and is absolutely typical of the development which took place at that time.

Lord Windsor, Chairman of Barry Docks and Railway Company, gave this road its name. It was designed and built as better housing, with accommodation for live-in household staff.

Longridge stands about six miles from Preston on the Clitheroe Road. It still shows many of the signs of a country village, and is complete with its Market Square, as our photograph shows.

The photographer was standing towards the northern end of Hagley Road, looking towards Stourbridge.

Hiltingbury Road leads from Winchester Road to Hiltingbury Common, which during the Second World War and for some time after was covered with huts and used for various purposes - British troops, American

A landmark on the Bawtry-Thorne road, the Blue Bell Inn stands at the crossroads of the Doncaster-Epworth road in the heart of the low-lying Hatfield Moors, close to the RAF station at Finningley.

A horse and cart wends its way up a gated minor road through the Coniston Fells.

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

We are looking across Irby Road and along Thigwall Road.

This follows the course of a much older road, the Roman 'Fosse Way', which runs from the 'colonia' of Lincoln to Axminster in Devon, built as a military road around 47 AD.

Opened in 1928, it replaced a previous Fortune of War (now a printer's on the Billericay road), which had itself been founded, supposedly, by a soldier returning from the Napoleonic Wars.

At the west end of the High Street, London Road curves away north-west downhill.

Opened in 1928, it replaced a previous Fortune of War (now a printer's on the Billericay road), which had itself been founded, supposedly, by a soldier returning from the Napoleonic Wars.

The medieval parish church, Ashtead Park house and its landscaped park, now part of the City of London Freemen's School, are south of this main through road, the A24 London to Worthing road.

It opened in 1884, and Dormans Park was laid out with houses in treed plots - the roads are still gravelled.

In the era of the stage coach, the George Hotel was classed as the best hotel on the Great North Road, and it is still one of the best in the area.