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This is one of several short parades of shops along the main road through Penn. Built in the early to mid 20th century, it remains largely unchanged today.

This picture captures reminders of road transport old and new. In the foreground is a toll house, a vestige from the days of horse-drawn coaches that paid to use the road.

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford. The pub seen here—the Bull—is displaying a 'Sundays: No Coaches' sign.

The road is now pedestrianised and much has been lost in this view.

Further downhill, at Fiveways, the road on the right is Fosse Lane. Here the Roman Fosse Way climbs out of the Avon valley to cross Banner Down on its way to Cirencester, the Roman town of Corinium.

Bolckow Road was the busy commercial centre of the Grangetown community, as we can see here from the wide selection of local shops and the parish church of St Matthew in the centre.

Walsworth Road runs from the railway station to the centre of Hitchin. We might be forgiven for believing that this is a quiet backwater in a developing market town.

Before Station Road became the bustling thoroughfare it is today, the photographer poses the children on the pavement and in the road to complete this Edwardian scene.

The Romford County High School for Girls was opened in Heath Park Road in 1910. During the First World War the Army occupied the school's extensive grounds.

The old library was on the other side of the road and had once been the Charity School.

Behind them, New Road rises to the village centre and to the A40 road to Brecon and Abergavenny.

All these roads are similar. The rough roads have all been paved. Almost all the houses are detached, and often individually designed.

All these roads are similar. The rough roads have all been paved. Almost all the houses are detached, and often individually designed.

This view looks from Godstone Road to the Plaistow Street-Newchapel Road junction.

The main road leads down past Holy Trinity church, which was built in 1836. The scene is similar today but the road is very busy with motor traffic.

The building on the right, now demolished, stood on the corner of what is now Vicarage Road, and was the first county library in the town.

This view is taken from the junction with Carshalton Road, south from St Barnabas Church. As we look north down St Barnabas Road, we see that the trees and houses look very new.

A local farmer, who appeared in the film, recalls how two Australian tourists almost careered off the road when a road sign erected as part of the set pointed to somewhere they knew back home in Oz.

The road is still the A158 Lincoln to Skegness road. Remember Green Shield Stamps? The garage on the right offered them!

They would not notice the milk churns on the stand by the side of the road (left), as they were a common sight then.

At the opposite end of the High Street, the Tring Road climbs out of Wendover past this delightful range of early 17th-century timber-framed and thatched cottages.

The mill was built as a corn mill, and mill workers' cottages grew up along the Tringford Road, complete with an 1870s elementary school.

We are on the Petworth to Guildford main road. The church of St John Baptist was rebuilt in 1877; it has a strange-looking font dated 1662.

Walsworth Road again, this time in 1922 and at the junction with Highbury and Verulam Roads.