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On the road to Thrapston is a round tower built by General Arbuthnot, a friend of the Duke of Wellington, to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.

Further down the road a lot of people are gathered outside Woolworth's store - perhaps they had a sale on.

This is a wild and rugged coastline, with the only road a track to the light used by TrinityHouse to service it. Like other lighthouses around our coasts these days, it is now operated automatically.

The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road. Once stage coaches thun- dered through, forcing bystanders onto the narrow pavements.

Bedford Street is another road that disappeared from the map following the blitz.

They were planted in both residential and main roads and the approach to the town from Gidea Park is a joy when the trees are in full foliage.

This picture shows its lodge on the main Ongar-Dunmow road.

Eric Parker was quite dismissive about Milford, describing it as 'less a village than a road', and having 'some pollarded elms and dusty jasmine'.

Northleach stands on the road from South Wales to London; it became an important coaching town, where inns such as the half-timbered Kings Head we see here provided shelter and accommodation to travellers

The hospital was opened in 1869 and is located on St Helen's Road. St Andrew's church is just visible in the distance.

This photograph and H464004 show the same scene on the St Ives Road.

At Rustington, the 11th-century church and the cottages in The Street, Sea Lane and Station Road are all built of these flint boulders.

During this period of expansion, the church of St Michael and All Angels, consecrated in 1924, was built opposite the junction of Penhill Road and South Street.

Kingsway is Hove's coast road. Little has changed since this picture was taken nearly 50 years ago, save that the traf- fic is now a constant stream, not the solitary tandem pictured here.

Motor traffic levels were low when this photograph was taken - in later years severe restrictions and road re-design have been applied.

Continuing the development of houses along the main Dunmow to Colchester Road, these fine houses, dating from the turn of the 20th century, were also built for the growing middle class.

Here we see the main road leading north from Preston and the Methodist Church.

In 1874 it moved again, to Reynolds Field, off Hillmorton Road, and in 1878 it moved yet again, to the bottom of Railway Terrace and Murray Road.

Today, the village and its Tudor buildings is one of Kent's largest and busiest on the A20 road to Maidstone and Ashford.

The Midland Bank on the corner of Caulfield Road (right) is one of their 1920s Classical-style single-storey buildings that add quality to many High Streets.

At the west end of Lumley Road there were a few shops in 1899, but the view is utterly transformed now from Roman Bank, a reference to the old Roman sea wall.

The road extends to the now defunct railway line as 20th-century Countesthorpe balloons in an amoebic sprawl westwards towards Cosby and Whetstone.

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

It was closed to railway traffic in 1967 and reopened as a road bridge in 1979.