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Micheldever Road was a new turnpike in 1840 and would remain the main road from Winchester until town development after 1961 led to its abandonment. Half a mile behind the viewer is Ladies' Walk.

A horse looks with interest at the two little boys in the road. The old road to Camelford and beyond, later becoming the A39, climbs steeply up Gonvena Hill from the bridge.

Comparing this with the earlier pictures, the memorial has gained a chequered kerbstone and a rash of road signs.

Frith's photographer is looking from the middle of the green towards Wharf Road, with the through road crossing the centre of the view.

Leafy Hyde Road, otherwise known as Walditch Road, cuts south-eastwards through the parkland of The Hyde. This sylvan setting is only half a mile from the bustle of East Street.

To the right of the Tower you can make out haystacks in the farmyard (now the top end of Rowley Road) and behind the Grammar School.

The narrow hedge-lined lane with unspoiled views over the Brighton Road valley remained until the late 1920s when the lane was widened and houses rapidly appeared.

In the early 1950s, the street lamps were being converted from gas to electricity; these in Lumley Road are the last gas lamps in use just before the changeover.

Children wait on the pavement and road edge to be included in the photograph. Women in long skirts walk along, or wait on the opposite pavement. Two horse-drawn vehicles travel along the road.

Still close to the Yorkshire county boundary and south- west of Harworth, Oldcotes village is situated at the crossroads of the A634 and A60; Main Street runs east from the A60 Doncaster Road

The road follows the line of the old Roman road which linked North Gate and Head Gate, both entrance points to the original Roman walled town.

Two cars are on the road to the right, part of the main road to Barrow-in-Furness.

The Black Swan Inn would have been a popular resting place for the cattle drovers who used the Bullock Road.

The houses in this road were the largest and most impressive in Barry, and were occupied by mainly business and professional people.

The roads leading out of Botley Square are all narrow; this one leading to Winchester is particularly so. The houses are all of an individual design. Some shops have encroached into this road.

We are approaching Chandler's Ford from Southampton along Bournemouth Road, altered from Southampton Road to avoid confusion with another road of that name.

There is Weedon-bec, Upper Weedon and Road Weedon. All of them lie close to Watling Street, the old Roman road which crosses the River Nene in this area.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

Another recreation ground available to Rugbeians was the Whitehall Recreation Ground on Hillmorton Road, which housed a 28-ton, armoured First World War tank presented to the town in 1919,

The Lickey Hills are actually in Worcestershire, and so is this road junction, though only just. As the hills are owned by Birmingham, it is reasonable to include the area in this book.

The road past St Mary's church originally took an indirect course to avoid a marshy area, but in 1801 the marsh was drained and a more direct road was built.

Near the end of Hiltingbury Road, and on a comer with a new Ashdown Road, a public house called the Tabby Cat was built and thrived for some time.

Pelham Road runs all the way through the town; it is now built up on both sides of the road. The vehicles are up-to-date - a new Austin A30 van is delivering to the shop on the left.

The Old Rose and Crown is near the bottom of Rose Hill, a former Roman road which later formed part of the Birmingham- Bristol road; it became a toll road in 1726.