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From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

The main camp road ran directly on to this beach.

Famous for its herrings, it was also busy with boatbuilding, pilotage, and supplying ships anchored in the roads offshore. The lifeboat station opened in 1870 and shut in August 1988.

The river Dunt has been diverted to run alongside the road.

At this point the main Leominster to Hereford road starts to climb the steep hill. Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction.

A few miles outside the market town of Liskeard, but away from main roads, the village has largely escaped modern developments.

Bolton Cross is a local name given to the meeting of Bolton Street, New Road, Middle Street and Fore Street. Children gather around the public drinking fountain.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road.

The old road to Sleights runs along beside it through green tunnels, and is well loved by walkers and rowing boat enthusiasts alike.

The first modern shop façade in the High Street was Fine Fare (left), a small supermarket on the corner of Meadow Road, vying with the more old-fashioned International Stores opposite.

In the 1930s, Laindon High Road had consisted of 120 shops; only one of the old buildings now remains.

Castrol House, on the corner of Balcombe Street and Marylebone Road, was completed in 1960, when it caused much comment for being London's first American-style curtain-walled office building.

This pretty house sits back away from the road, and is the Warden's house for the Girl Guides Camping Ground.

Overlooking Ferrybridge Road, Victoria Park was opened in time for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

Since this photograph was taken, the age of the motor vehicle has arrived, and today this is an extremely busy road.

With the growth of public motor transport after the First World War, pubs like the Prince of Wales next to a main road could cash in on regular passing trade.

Today new housing estates cover the area, with just the name 'Brine Road' to remind us of what was once here.

There is a wonderful mixture of timber-framed, Georgian and Victorian buildings here, which line both sides of the road.

In the 1930s, Laindon High Road had consisted of 120 shops; only one of the old buildings now remains.

The northward view is slightly less romantic: Pitsea High Road crosses the centre of the picture, with the Northlands estate behind it.

This white limestone building has changed little over the years, but Borough Road, in which it stands, is now a busy dual carriageway.

The tall building beyond and all those on the left beyond the Baptist Church were demolished for car parks, inner relief roads, and a roundabout: Blucher Street is very much truncated nowadays

This one gives vehicle access, but if we head north away from the road we will find ourselves in one of the finest areas of the park.

In the 18th century, Farningham was a stopping place on the main London-Dover road, but was by-passed with the construction of the A20.