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One of Ilkley's many smaller hydros, the Marlborough House on Clifton Road opened in 1878. It survived almost a century before being replaced by modern town houses in Marlborough Square.

Another view of Salutation Square before its redevelopment and transformation into a busy road junction. The board on the 'Keep Left' sign refers to a Royal Army Ordnance Corps exercise.

The road surface shows signs of cobbling from an earlier age.

This view looks eastwards along the former Roman road to Colchester, which forms the main street of this village. The church, whose spire can be seen, is the Methodist church.

This is another view from the same road that passes through Hucclecote to Barnwood, but before the advent of fast cars and lorries. The avenue still remains.

Swimbridge was the next village along the Barnstaple to South Molton road after Landkey. In this 1890s picture, there are roadside poles. Are they for gas lighting, or telephones even?

This time the position was right: it was about one and a half miles out of town, and set in the new suburbs along the Cliftonville Road.

Note the absence of road markings and the apparently low volume of traffic that enables motorists to park on the bridge itself. Picton Place is named after the Picton family, referred to later.

He died on the Bovington road in May 1935 riding his beloved motorcycle. Seventy years later, pilgrims still make the journey to pay homage at his grave.

Okehampton stands on the road between Exeter and Cornwall and must have had some strategic importance in earlier centuries - hence this grand castle.

This church, built in 1841 on the Bath/Winsley Road, proclaimed the wealth and status of the local residents at the time with its size and its landmark steeple.

In Roman times several roads met at this spot and, until it was demolished during the Civil War, a medieval cross stood nearby. The cross was restored to its original site in 1975.

On the poles along the road are the electrical conductors needed by the trolley buses, which were succeeded by motor buses in the late 1940s.

Here we are looking down Queen Street from the junction with Kettering Road, towards the centre of the village where the spire of the church can be seen in the distance.

We are on the A4 road to Marlborough, looking towards Calne. At this point there is now a major roundabout which takes traffic right to Avebury, or left to Devizes.

Pedestrians go about their business all wrapped up in waterproofs, and the road is covered with puddles.

The short flights enabled drivers to be on the roads of France or Belgium much more quickly than if they used the ferries.

The rural nature of this scene is emphasised by the cart just visible inside the barn, and the boy with his barrow about to cross the road. A

The road stretches towards Camberley.

The road stretches towards Camberley.

In the manor of Little Askrigg we find this road junction - if we go right, we reach Carperby (4 miles) and Leyburn (12 miles). Behind Woodburn House, left, was the village brewery.

The road took its name from St Nicholas. In the background Bethel Baptist Church can be seen.

A stone alongside the main road records the fact and notes that Wren was 'Architect, Mathematician, Patriot'.

The small, relatively unspoilt village of Fernhurst lies on the Midhurst to Haslemere road in the north-west corner of Sussex.