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The heart of the city changed almost continuously throughout the 20th century as new public buildings, office buildings and department stores were constructed and road building and widening schemes

The heart of the city changed almost continuously throughout the 20th century as new public buildings, office buildings and department stores were constructed and road building and widening schemes

When it was new in 1845, it was described as being on the new Lisburn Road about a furlong from the turnpike.

At one time many of these buildings were in danger of demolition to make way for a new road. Fortunately the scheme was abandoned.

It is the point of destination of Telford's most famous road, now the A5, built rapid communication between London and Dublin.

Only one non- Christian group has established a place of worship in Stafford in recent times - the Sikh Gurdwara in Tithe Barn Road.

It was originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk

Teas are still being served on the corner of The Village and Arrowe Park Road at the Stone House Café (U36010, right), and the Horse and Jockey Hotel still occupies the junction of Rake Lane

The hospital's name is preserved in a road name: St Lawrence Way.

population of Cinderford stands at around 7,500, but up until the 19th century Cinderford was no more than a tiny hamlet clustered around the building that is now The Bridge Inn on Speech House Road

At the cross-roads is the entrance to the town.

Others had already attached similar motors to road vehicles, and so Vauxhall joined in the experiment; they produced their first car in 1903, powered by the same type of single-cylinder 5hp engine

Warren Road remained private with its own gateway until the 1950s. A barrier was put down one day a year to establish the owner's rights.

Two buildings at the far end have been demolished for road widening, and even the White Lion (right), which became a pub in 1558, was taken over in about 1970 and is now an extension to The China Shop.

There had been a temporary station here, built in 1857 for the Art Treasures Exhibition; in 1931, when the line was electrified, a permanent station, called Warwick Road Station, was opened here.

This view can be seen from the A4 road to Marlborough.

Two buildings at the far end have been demolished for road widening, and even the White Lion (right), which became a pub in 1558, was taken over in about 1970 and is now an extension to The China Shop.

All of this part of the street was dug up during the extensive road works of early 2004.

This bridge carried much coaching trade, as it was on the main London to York road.

century, travellers in horse-drawn carriages from London would see the welcome sight of the Queen's Head and the spire of the church of St Mary and St Hugh in the background as they rounded the bend in the road

British Dyes During the Boer War, Read Holliday and Sons manufactured picric acid for the explosive Lyddite which resulted in a massive explosion at the works in 1900.

The heart of the city changed almost continuously throughout the 20th century as new public buildings, office buildings and department stores were constructed and road building and widening schemes

An interesting collection of old cars can be seen along the left-hand side of the road next to the tea rooms on the main street of this pleasant village.

Stone flag pavements line the road. Brickmaking is an important local industry: a hundred million bricks were made a year in the 1970s.