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This is the view visitors would see from the main Leeds to Ripon road.

This view looks southwards along Shawfield Road with two complementary shops on each corner. The Brinkworth Stores, on the right, sold groceries and provisions.

parish church of St Peter, with its solid flintstone tower dominating the high street shops and mid-morning traffic in this picture, was originally built by the Normans alongside the spacious Roman road

The wide High Street gave Broadway its name; the road was built to cover two streams that flow either side of the old road. A

The builder and undertaker's shop on the extreme right was on the corner of Church Road, and the frontage of the adjacent cottage is little altered.

During the mid 19th century, new suburban houses were built along the road leading to Ware. As well as dwellings, one or two factories provided work for local people.

This view from the Mansfield Road junction looks uphill along Nottingham Road, the principal shopping street, lined by mostly 19th- century buildings.

Today the wooden gates are gone, and so is the fountain in the road, erected by the Hender family in memory of their son Leonard, who drowned near Land's End in 1894.

Further east along The Embankment, Newnham Bridge crosses the north branch of the River Ouse at the south end of Tennyson Road. We are looking east from the north bank.

This view is taken looking south towards Oving from Bowling Alley's junction with the North Marston to Whitchurch Road.

If we count four awnings down on the same side of the road, we will just be able to make out Boots.

Already licensed by the mid 18th century, the Angel Inn (left) stands at the junction of the High Street and London Road.

Swanage Station and Station Road (centre right) can be seen beyond the Rectory (bottom right), the home of Rev Thomas Alfred Gurney, which is now Swanwic House.

The wide High Street gave Broadway its name; the road was built to cover two streams that flow either side of the old road. A

Hermitage Road was opened in 1875 to give the people of Hitchin better access to the railway station. The land was given by Frederick Seebohm, who owned the Hermitage Estate.

The road sign (left) at the junction of the High Street and London Road gives the clue.

Witley, further west on the Milford to Petworth road, is in total contrast: its houses are timber-framed, often with the upper storeys tile-hung.

The elegant Georgian house on the right of the road has been converted to offices.To the right of it is the entrance to Botley Mills, an 18th-century mill complex, which is mentioned in the Domesday

The photograph is taken from Arden Road, which is the other side of Grange Road - all the street names have obviously been chosen to evoke a rural past which is now just a memory.

Some picturesque cottages were destroyed to widen these roads and create the roundabout, which now dominates the view.

This view of Station Road looks south-west past the junction to Havelock Street, with the imposing clock tower of the 1903 Co-op store.

From the Hind Hotel we walk down Market Street and turn right down Midland Road. All the buildings on the left have been replaced by the modern Swansgate shopping centre.

This was once an important stopping place on the main road from Taunton to the north Devon area; now, a new road further south has removed much of the traffic from this place.

The photograph is taken from Arden Road, which is the other side of Grange Road - all the street names have obviously been chosen to evoke a rural past which is now just a memory.