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Canford Bridge has three arches of Portland stone over a languid length of the River Stour, and carries the road from Wimborne to Poole.

The village shop still has its awning out, but the sign now reads H T Houghton.

photos, although from the same vantage point, span a period of 60 years.They show many changes in some of the buildings and in the mode of transport.Two horse-drawn vehicles can be seen on the road

Over to the right once stood the massive King's Mill, used for grinding corn from 1872 until 1933, when it was demolished to make way for the parallel new road bridge.

The old parish church of St Tydfil was restored and re-built in the 1890s; its graveyard was greatly reduced in 1902 to construct the road to Cardiff.

It overlooks Kingsway, a dual carriageway originally called St Bede's Road.

Like Finchingfield, this village is based around a triangular green - though Wethersfield`s is smaller than it once was, owing to road widening.

It still carries a large volume of traffic, although all is quiet here – we are looking down Penwinnick Road.

It was built in the early 17th century, and was widened in 1925 from 16 feet to 40 feet to carry the increased traffic on the A6 trunk road between Derby and Manchester.

It is hole in the road time again as the lads from Stourbridge gas works prepare to do their stuff.

There is a larger shop across road. A woman waits patiently against the fence by the pond; she has just come from the swimming pool area.

On the road behind the houses there is a mouldering old Sherman tank. It was lost during the 1944 rehearsals, and only recovered in 1988.

The estate vilage of Arlington with the old post office - now Mill Cottages - lies alongside the Lynton to Barnstaple road.

This street, now pedestrianised, was a busy part of the A30 trunk road. It was widened a century ago to cope with the increasing traffic.

Ships' chandlers and coal merchants line the waterside, and a coal cart stands idle at the side of the road.

It has not been long since a horse or two trotted along this Edwardian street, as the evidence in the centre of the road reveals.

In 1896 Salisbury Road was constructed, bisecting Moseley Hall Park. The northern part was bought by a consortium of businessmen who built houses overlooking it.

Huge sheep markets were held here, and the farmers and buyers refreshed themselves in the Woolpack, a convenient public house across the road from the castle.

The terrace of shops stepping down the High Street, beyond the busy junction with Carshalton Road and William Pile Ltd (the stuccoed corner building), was erected in 1880.

There is a pub of the same name in Redditch situated on a former turnpike road, and it is believed to have taken its name from the turnpike gate, but that is unlikely to be the case here.

Situated six miles west of Darlington, Piercebridge is unusual in that the village was built within the ramparts of a Roman fort that once guarded the bridge over the Tees carrying the road between York

This photograph shows the centre of the busy High Street, with the road to Bexley and London ahead and the turning to Crayford visible on the right.

A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

The coffee merchant E W Coleman's van is parked outside his shop (centre); beside its window is an LNER train timetable - Station Road is off to the left.