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Liverpool and Manchester both sent traffic over the Ribble bridges and into the dock area to join roads that were full already.

It originally stood on the corner of Argyle Street and Grange Road, but it was moved to its present location in 1929 in order to make way for the Mersey Tunnel approach roads.

Beyond him, a sign jutting into the road is for Taylor Inman, plumber and painter.

Five roads meet at the square, including Church Road, which contains with many beautiful listed cottages. The centre of the village is used to hold the annual May Fair.

The church hall, in Rectory Road, was much more central to Pitsea than the medieval church, perched on its hilltop site.

Colyford was built on the Roman road that joined the quarries at Beer to the Icknield Way.

Another view of Bank Road in the centre of Matlock. Where the man is crossing the road on the left is now a pedestrian- controlled crossing.

Large late Victorian houses lined Station Road, the adjacent Queensberry Road and the Headlands, built for businessmen who 'commuted' to London.

This 1960s view is a taken a little further north from the station, with the entrance to Grove Road half-way along on the left.

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401. At its east end is another of Lincolnshire's preserved windmills.

The corner shop at the junction of Terrace Road and Forest Road displays numerous advertisements, including those for Walls Ice Cream, Cadburys, Digger, and Turf.

Today it is called Station Road, and its historic buildings, right, have given way to an office block and a ring road. Only the grandiose Baptist Church remains.

The medieval parish church's east window in the distance locates the view along High Street, but a new Safeways obliterated most of Star Road on the right, and earlier road widening removed the

When the railway arrived in 1849 George Cavendish, Earl of Burlington, laid out Terminus Road to link the station to the sea front, and it rapidly became Eastbourne's main commercial street.

The inner relief road carved through here in the late 20th century from left to right, destroying the post office and the surrounding houses.

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

The building on the right – now demolished as part of the road widening scheme - advertises the Crown Hotel, on the other side of the road.

It is thought that the name Telegraph Road comes from a 19th-century telegraph station that stood on top of the Beacons, to the west of the road; but if that was the case, it was not part of the telegraph

St Joseph's Catholic church stands in Arrowe Park Road, just a short step from the main cross-roads in the village. It was designed by Adrian Scott and opened in 1954.

Work on surfacing the road with tarmac is still under way. The District Council's policy of tree planting is in evidence here, with young saplings protected by iron cases lining the road.

Park Lane, running from the western ends of Oxford Street and Piccadilly, was a narrow road down the side of Hyde Park.

The ribbon development along the line of Godstone Road is well illustrated here, looking north towards Riddlesdown chalkpit.

The northern end of New Road, with its spacious up-to-date villas, catered for the shop-owners and factory managers.

In 1901 the main road to the south was Park Street. The lane to the right leads to Gosmore, and at the top of the hill in front of us, hidden by the bushes, is the Moorhens public house.