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We are on the Eastbourne to London main road. Outside the stables of the Shelley Arms Hotel, a large 18th century coaching inn, produce stalls display items for sale.

As can be seen here, roads in the mid 1950s were a lot quieter than they are today. In 1955 UK car production reached a new record of nearly 900,000 cars and home sales were counted at over 500,000.

John was still there in 1906; his is the only address on the road that appears in the commercial section of that year's Kelly's Directory.

A view from the Shire Hall along what was to become a heavily congested street, until the building of the new relief road, with a string of Georgian and early Victorian shopfronts overshadowed by the

Off the main road, Fremington has changed little. The man standing in the doorway would undoubtedly recognise the scene today, even if the shop has closed and is now Penny Cottage.

The view from the 1833ft summit of the Blorenge is one of the most spectacular in Wales; but the road that crosses the mountain from Blaenavon to Govilon and Llanfoist is fairly narrow and steeply

The lake of Dyffryn Mymbyr lies in a broad, windswept upland valley. It is almost divided into twin lakes by a central delta.

Once an important coaching town on the Great North Road, Wetherby went into decline for a number of years as long-distance stagecoach travel lost out to the railways.

Situated on the corner of Queen's Road and Westwood Drive, this guest house was also a victim of changing times.

Being so near the old Roman road from Manchester to York, and being so well-placed on many routes, it has always had a reputation for putting up visitors and travellers.

There are extensions to the original house in Lakewood Road with facilities for sport and music.

Road improvements in the 1960s swept away these stone houses to make way for the greater convenience of the motorist. The mature cyclist is about to free-wheel into the High Street off to the right.

These stone cottages were demolished in the 1950s and the site is now the access road to St Katherine's Way. Behind is the spire of the medieval parish church.

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

On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider. Here the river Trent is the boundary between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

This is the A1031 coastal road to Grimsby, with the sea to the right.

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

Often, lead would be the main load.

Strete's main road is seldom now as peaceful and car-free as it was in the 1920s.

We are on the Eastbourne to London main road.

This is the main automotive route north from the city centre yet pedestrians appear happy to saunter UP the road rather than across it!

Power cables for trolley buses and gaps in the pedestrian island evoke this era of road transport. The long defunct Martins Bank echoes this period.

Fishermen regularly brought their creels of pilchards and herring from the creek (Paignton Harbour - see photograph right and P2046, page 24), along the sand bar (Sands Road - see 81150, page 27), to a

Raised well above the road, with its emaciated battlemented tower and unimaginative body, it was designed by William ), who was at the time Architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the designer