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Even the dogs are nonplussed - and the fact that they are happily standing in the middle of the road suggests that any traffic hazard in such a quiet backwater was probably very limited.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

The new A55 road tunnel beneath the river diverts through-traffic from its streets. The quay is busy today with pleasure craft, rather than the commercial traffic of the past.

Linking Harrison Drive and Breck Road, Wallasey Village has always been just that; no Road, Drive, Way or other title, because it doesn't need it.

Bramley stands about four miles south of Guildford on the Horsham Road; it is a long village with a busy crossroads with Station Road (there has been no railway since the 1960s).

Frith's photographer has chosen the best bit of Bagshot to photograph: he is looking south-west along the High Street from its junction with Bridge Road towards the Square.

Little Bookham's tiny 12th- century church and manor house lie south of the Guildford Road.

This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop

On the extreme left are the premises of the Trustee Savings Bank - it moved across the road later in the 1960s.

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

This small town grew up on the course of the Roman road from London to Chichester, later known as Stane (or stone paved) Street.

This is locally known as the back road to Lincoln, and it looks a well surfaced village road.

The A12 runs through the village, with Chapel Road (leading to the Congregational chapel of 1778) to the left and Blythburgh Road to the right.

At the junction of Old Road and the main road, the A271, was this entrepreneurial former village smithy.

The older parts of Chipstead village are on the chalk ridge above the dry valley some 150 feet below, along which Chipstead Valley Road runs.

This view looks along Camelsdale Road.

We are looking south-west down Crofts End, the lane which leads from Crofts End itself at the top of the hill behind the photographer to the main through road.

At the turn of the millennium we long for those halcyon days as traffic now reaches saturation point, potholes get deeper and deeper, and road repairs are always carried out at the most inconvenient spot

The roads are more clearly defined, but it is still safe enough to ride a bicycle near the middle of the road.

This photograph shows the cross-roads, where the motorist could get some refreshment and petrol in those days of more leisurely travel. The road behind us climbs up to Hare Appletree Fell.

Cheesden Brook passes under Ashworth Road, flowing to the right to join Naden Brook as it leaves Carr, Gelder and Bamford Woods.

Ockley is a very fine village along the course of the Roman road from London to Chichester, which has been known from Anglo-Saxon times as Stane Street.

This village has grown around a road junction on the Horsham to Brighton road.

By the late 1950s it had become overwhelmed, and Newark Road, known as the bypass, was constructed on the east side of the village.