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Between 1875 and 1880 the council bought out tolls on the Chesterfield, Langsett and Worksop roads; Hunter's Bar itself was removed on October 1884.

Needham, on the main road, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.

Here we have another view of Whitehall, and the adjoining properties of Laurel Cottage and Vault Cottage along the Malden Road, with the elegant rectory beyond which, in its earliest parts, dates back

Not far from here in Palmerston Road, Handleys of Southsea, a department store and part of the Debenhams group, was 100 years old in 1967.

The war memorial has also been moved – it now sits well within a memorial garden across the road.

Seen in the centre of the photograph, but also marginalized, are the houses alongside the old Hereford Road and the steam of the Hereford to Abergavenny train.

The residences seen (right) through the shrubbery are their enclave – the grand villas of Bridgman Road and neighbouring Marine Parade.

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change.

These gates, with agricultural implements incorporated, are situated at the Holly Lodge on the Boughton Road west of the village.

Church Street and the roads off to the left are part of a grid of Victorian brick, terraced, straight streets.

The village itself lies to the south of the main road and is therefore often overlooked. To this day it retains many quiet corners.

The salt mines underground are enormous, so large that miles and miles of road systems, big enough for double-decker buses, have been formed to travel around on; in fact there are 22 million cubic metres

These thatched cottages are on either side of the road to Brent Pelham at the eastern, outer reaches of Anstey.

After almost 70 years use, it was sold and a new Constables built on Leicester Road in 1929.

Here, the High Street splits into three roads: to Leicester; to South Back Way and to Stockerston. The rather crude signpost has now gone and there is no entry from this direction.

Facing the Green Dragon across the road is a terrace of stone cottages, with the New Inn at the end. Next door to the Green Dragon, an antiquated Regent petrol pump indicates a garage.

At the time of this photograph, Hoskins, a family brewery in Beaumanor Road, Belgrave, in Leicester, owned this, their one public house.

Fronting the road, beyond the outbuildings in the two previous views, is the 17th-century cottage where the zoo park started some seventy years ago; its outbuildings became the gift shop

It owes its solitude to the fact that the Exeter road bypasses it.

In the foreground is the Beach House Hotel, now Beach Court (left), with the Marine Snack Bar on the opposite side of the road.

This part of Blackburn Road was a hive of activity with lots of shops.

Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.There are dewponds alongside the road by the Beacon.

We are looking northwards from below Priory Corner, across urban Portland from Killicks Hill and the school at Clovens Road above Chesil Cove (bottom left), to Chiswell, Fortuneswell (centre) and Castletown

Note the ladder on the pavement to the right of the picture, the scarcity of traffic, and the complete absence of road markings.