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A view showing roads virtually devoid of traffic. Grey Abbey was once the post town on the Newtownards to Portaferry road.

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

The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.

According to the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, about 50 private houses were built in Bryans Close Road in the angle of North Street and Oxford Road in 1930.

Here the A320 Guildford Road meets the A319 Chobham Road and the B3121, Murray Road, from Addlestone at what is now a large roundabout.

This typical 1930s house possibly replaced a house that restricted the road. The white lines on the road are a new feature controlling the increasing traffic.

Part of the old Ramper Road, this end of Victoria Road passes the Congregational church where Mr W Gornall was a great supporter.

This view is in Homefield Park north-east of Steyne Gardens, and looks towards the Homefield Road gate; the chimney of No 42, one of the road's 1880s houses, can be seen between the trees and Thurlow

Well-designed bollards and street signs front a typical road-house at the junction of the Great North Road with the lesser east-west Elstree to Chipping Barnet Road.

The Corn Exchange next door is still there, and on the other side of the road stands the Gordon Arms Hotel.

We are at the junction of Wingrave Road on the left, which leads into Tring past the site of the old Tring silk mill, and Tringford Road on the right; the photographer is standing in Bulbourne

Much more pedestrian in style is St Luke's, at the junction of St Luke's Road and Norfolk Road to the north of the town centre, built to serve the new suburb beyond what became Kidwell's Park.

Turning right at the top of the High Street into London Road, and taking the first road to the left, we find ourselves in King's Ride, which would take us onto Barossa Common.

In the medieval manorial rolls there are references to ancient roads and lanes that carry the same names today.

This is the A631, although it does not look like an A-class road. The telephone box has gone, and so have the telegraph poles and wires.

From Brook the route heads to Milford, formerly partially on the A3 London to Portsmouth road but now, mercifully, by-passed - but the traffic is still heavy.

This is an unusual view for the time, showing the old Portsmouth Road, now by-passed and merely the A307. Even then, the road shows signs of traffic congestion.

An almost complete lack of traffic is quite amazing, considering that this road is the main A6 trunk road between Derby and Manchester.

Langley Park is a pit village just off the road between Lanchester and Durham. The road to the left goes to Quebec and Cornsay Colliery.

This is now a busy road junction of the A23 and B2036 Balcombe road.

This is Main Road, and it is full of local limestone-built houses. Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns.

Before the main A23 road was built, Cuckfield was busy with horse-drawn coaches on their way between London and Brighton. Visually, this scene is virtually unchanged today.

AT the start of the Victorian era, all the roads around Enfield had been turnpiked. These were under the care of the Commissioners for Turnpike Roads, who charged a uniform toll of 3d.

London Road and the High Street were the main shopping areas in the early 1900s. The roads were still made of compressed dirt, and motor vehicles were uncommon.