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People are not too busy to stand in the road for a gossip. The men on the left are looking at a dog, probably a young lurcher. The bunting on the buildings would be for the 1953 Coronation.

Conceived in a typically robust style by John Coates Carter, the Victoria Road church is seen here in the first decade of its existence.

It was built in 1900 as a workhouse for the Hursley District Council at the northern end of Hursley Road.

This building, the School Science Block, however, is on the Glapthorn Road beyond New Street and dates from 1914. It is a distinguished Jacobean styled structure complete with an onion domed cupola.

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

It is hole in the road time again as the lads from Stourbridge gas works prepare to do their stuff.

The groynes on the beach indicate the ferocious tidal currents; in 1931 these currents seriously undermined a row of cottages up the road on the seaward side, that were subsequently

East of the Central Avenue/Bridgford Road junction is Bridgford Park; the house's extensive grounds are now a very popular public park.

This village is justt below the Downs on the main road between Midhurst and Chichester. The church has a 14th-century tower, and a mural painting in the nave dated 1220.

There is a pub of the same name in Redditch situated on a former turnpike road, and it is believed to have taken its name from the turnpike gate, but that is unlikely to be the case here

A nearby road is named after the Rev Harpur, vicar here from 1937 to 1950, who lived in the former vicarage on the left. In Suffolk, Tye is the local name for a small green.

The buildings all survive but the whole view has changed considerably with, believe it or not, a much narrower road.

This is Chorley's main street, the A6, Lancashire's main north to south road; it used to get very busy in the summer.

The old road follows the line of the ridge and the beach was once occasionally used to load coal onto boats at high tide from the nearby Trefân Cliff Colliery.

The footpath has now been widened and road markings added, so as to alert lorry drivers.

The London to Hastings road passed through this section of the town, and with the coming of motor vehicles this street became a traffic bottleneck.

The café pictured here is now a private house beside the main road to Tenbury Wells.

This view shows the main road that links Ludlow with Cleobury Mortimer - it is a spectacular drive, with wonderful views to the south.

The road leading out of this village, climbing the north-east flank of the head of the valley, was built in 1930-32 by unemployed miners. Note the two boys on the left of the picture.

Hayhurst's the wine merchants' premises are to the far right leading into Lancaster Road, past the Miller Arcade with its expensive jewellery shop and Sharp's the ladies' outfitter's.

Here we have a good view of the tram track near Palm Court at the Cavendish Road stop on the high cliffs (a lift was available to convey visitors to the shore and the Promenade).

Beneath it is the old road to Chapel en le Frith, which is now closed to traffic.

But Buckingham Road is now lined on both sides by parked cars, while overhead a positive cat's cradle of telephone wires and cables stretches across the intervening space.

Rows of neat cottages line the road; not far away, though not visible here, is the timber-framed St Mary's House.