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For casualties, the Pitsea Health Centre was held at Pitsea School, and was one of just three for Basildon residents of the 1950s; the others were in Craylands, Timberlog Lane, and Florence Road, Laindon

The little hamlet of Calenick lies a short distance south of Truro, in a valley bottom on the old road to Falmouth. Here beside the old lane is one of the few thatched cottages.

Across the road from the pub is the thatched bakery whose owner, John Fogarty, presented chocolates to the Queen Mother each year as she passed through on her way to the Cheltenham Race

This is the view from the road on the western side of the hill.

Taken some fifty years after photograph No 61493, this view looks along Trumpington Street in the opposite direction, with Corpus Christi on the right hand side of the road, and King's in the distance.

This rural lane is now unrecognisable, being a tarmac road leading to a car park, the library and a council estate, although the church with its broach spire and the High Street houses on the skyline remain

The George Hotel, on the left, was demolished in the 1950s to facilitate a road-widening scheme. Replicas of two High Street shops, a chemist and a tobacconist, can be seen in the City Museum.

There is an extensive network of footpaths and bridleways in this area, and ramblers and riders can still see unspoiled scenes if they care to wander away from the roads.

The two cyclists meandering down the middle of the road would not be able to do so for long today!

This view is taken from beside the 17th-century pre-fire stone survivor, Hazelrigg House, looking east along the tram tracks, with the road widening towards Horse Market.

The National Provincial has moved across the road to join the Westminster Bank.

Many of the buildings close to the inn were also razed to the ground to accommodate the road.

On the left the open area was until 1947 occupied by fine 16th- and 17th-century timber-framed buildings, unforgivably demolished for an aborted road improvement scheme.

Whitefield Church in the background stands in Park Road.

The use of the word 'gate', meaning a road or street, comes from the Old Norse 'gata', and is another clue to the antiquity of the town.

The two cyclists meandering down the middle of the road would not be able to do so for long today!

The George Hotel, on the left, was demolished in the 1950s to facilitate a road-widening scheme. Replicas of two High Street shops, a chemist and a tobacconist, can be seen in the City Museum.

The old toll house is at Pont Garreg-Fechan, at the junction of two former turnpike roads, now the A499 and A497, just west of Pwllheli. It was already derelict when this picture was taken.

The buildings in this photograph have been replaced with grotesque monstrosities, and the road seems to be permanently congested.

This is the road that leads to the village school. The house in the centre, Cabbaches, proclaims the date 1390 on a plaque near its front door.

Opened in September 1955 on a site facing Oakley Road, the school offered superb education facilities for the more academic students of the town.

This unusual bridge was both the first road swing bridge on floating pontoons in Britain (it was built in 1899) and then the first electrically operated swing bridge (in 1989).

Today, it is a sleepy little village off the frantically busy main road, and seldom visited by outsiders who simply do not know it is there. This view is virtually unchanged almost a century on.

Crossing below the road at this point there is, in fact, a tunnel for the Trent and Mersey Canal. Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.