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It is crossed by main roads to Warwick, Stratford and Coventry, and our picture harks back to those cone-free days of yester-year.

Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road.

Perched on a steep hill, the photographer has done justice to this picturesque view just off the Heads of the Valleys Road.

This graceful arched bridge over the River Frome has wooden rails, which still guard the road.

The green and the surrounding roads and houses may look a little different today, one hundred years after this photograph was taken, but one landmark remains reassuringly constant and permanent: Hawkley's

In the early years china clay was brought by barge to Winsford, where it was trans-shipped into horse-drawn wagons and taken by road to the Potteries.

Main Road c1955 Once the market town for Northumberland's principal lead-mining area, Allendale Town also lays claim to be at the geographical centre of the UK.

It is not even marked on the standard road maps, with the exception of Ordnance Survey of course.

A short distance from the coast road, modern village developments and camp sites many be found near East Runton Green or Lower Common.

Coaches ran from hotels such as the Dolphin at Bovey Tracey, and passengers would have had to endure several hours on tooth- looseningly rough roads.

and they display the characteristic detail of the period: projecting shop fronts proudly display their goods (including bales of cloth and blankets, left), and the dog has time to laze idly in the road

A flock of sheep block the unmade road through the Winnats.

The Tavistock road leads away from Plymouth to the fringes of Dartmoor, and has always been a busy highway.

It is crossed by main roads to Warwick, Stratford and Coventry, and our picture harks back to those cone-free days of yester-year.

This hotel sits just to the north of Holmes Chapel on the main road to Knutsford.

Stump Cross Caverns, on the summit of Greenhow Hill on the road between Pateley Bridge and Grassington, were discovered by lead miners seeking new veins of the then precious ore.

Fortunately, although a new road bridge has replaced this one, the old bridge survives as a footbridge.

This view of Bamford's Main Road is largely unchanged today - the rows of semi-detached villas still line the street as it climbs up towards the parish church, hidden in the trees to the right.

The shops on the left were built with bricks from the Nevendon Road brickworks. The shrubs conceal Ladybrow, a former doctor's house and surgery.

The High Street is one of the roads that crossed the green. In the foreground is a pair of cottages with a thatched roof.

Take away the trees, update the shop frontages and turn the road into a dual carriageway, and you see Mutley as it is today, except that the Hyde Park Hotel (from where this view was taken) is now on

At one time the county boundary, now defined by the River Tamar two miles to the north, ran between the two villages, and the old boundary stone can still be seen beside the road.

Our journey up the Great North Road ends here.