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The modern expansion of Groby as a Leicester suburb can be seen on the left, as the road swings towards Coalville.

The curving footpath was probably on the original road line from Pilton to Barrowden. The setting of the 14th-century battlemented tower and its crocketed recessed steeple is ideal.

To the right of this picture can be seen houses in Archer's Road, part of the development of Newtown in c1910.

The 14th-century bridge was a three-road crossing point all those years ago. Now it is a unique part of Lincolnshire's history.

Both the new high-level road bridge and the old transporter can be seen on our photograph.

Also, the High Streets have the quaint name 'the Village', so we have a road named Liskard Village, Upton Village etc.

The street becomes East Road and was gated with a level crossing (in front of the thatched cottage) for the West Bay extension of the Bridport Railway, in use from 1884 to 1962.

On the other side of the road, dispensing pharmacist N R Hilton is now trading as Hilton and Moss Chemists (right).

In the road are the corn rails - these were removed in 1929.

The Ridgway is one of the roads that was laid out to replace these lavender fields.

Little Chalfont, a name given the area by developers in the 1920s, grew up around Chalfont Road Station on the Metropolitan Line which opened in 1889, with a branch to Chesham opening the following year

Butting onto the pavement area on the left is the bulk of the Crown Inn, one of two coaching inns at the end of the old road to London. By 1950 the Corn Exchange was no longer in regular use.

Close to the road, the solid but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added

Beyond the viaduct is the Knutsford Road Swingbridge and the Latchford High Level Bridge. This was the last section of canal to be completed; the excavation was 55ft deep.

Frank Gates (left) had moved to this location by 1926 (having been in Chelmsford Road in 1922), and by 1937 was the main Ford dealer.

This is the road down to the shore (and Red Bank Farm). Red Bank is one of the spots from which you can cross the sands over to Kents Bank.

The old sanitorium was not big enough and one of the first acts of the new head, J F Wolfenden, was to build a new and large sanatorium on Stockerston Road.

Situated on the main coast road, this public house is extremely convenient for tourists and the villagers.

London Road, the old A1 before the town was by-passed, becomes Lombard Street before turning right into Castle Gate with its many former coaching inns; it then turns left beyond the castle

It has trap doors for direct loading into the narrow barges, or 'cuckoos' as they were known, and a crane on the canal bank. It is now part of the Lock Tavern, which fronts the road.

The High Street is looking remarkably quiet and empty – there are only a few vans and cars, and no road markings.

In 1981 they crossed the road to the building occupied here by E Harris, the chemist (second from the right).

Once the site of a rambling royal palace largely burned down in the 1690s, the road gradually acquired government offices and the home of the prime minister in Downing Street - its entrance

The King's Road was famous for trendy clothes and antique shops; in the 1960s Minis and Triumph Herald convertibles cruised up and down, the pavements thronged with peacock-gaudy young men and women.