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The first structure was a toll bridge; today the river is spanned by various busy roads and a motorway - a far cry from the days centuries ago when this river and many others like it on the south coast

The High Road itself, ironically, tended to be where the better-quality homes were built.

Green-painted iron gates inscribed 'In memory of the fallen' open into the Garden of Remembrance from Plymouth Road, just round the corner from the bus station.

A new town hall now stands opposite the Palace, while the foreground area has been sacrificed to the road system.

With fewer people about on a less sunny day, the three tiers of the sea front are clearer to see, with the road and pavement to the left separated from the wide Promenade below by trim hedges.

Continue east along London Road to Beaufort Buildings West and East, long gently curving terraces of 1791 to 1815.

While the bicycle clearly retains its lasting appeal on these newly surfaced roads, the motor car is also beginning to make its presence felt in this community.

With five important roads making this junction, it proved to be one of the most complicated tramway configurations in the world. The 1960s saw all but a few buildings on the left swept away.

The road bridge shown here is narrow, but it carries heavy traffic volumes between Yarm and the southern edge of Middlesbrough.

Norton High Street is one of the surprise features in Teesside, with several elegant period houses nestling behind the trees which line the road verges.

It was sacrificed in a road-widening scheme, and replaced by the Fountain public house, which was set back in line with the ancient row of almshouses we see here on the left.

The road to the left leads to the former Independent Chapel of 1750. The parish church of St Michael is to our right.

Beyond the boats and boatmen the old Cart Road to the Cobb harbour passes above Lucy's Ledge Jetty (centre left) and then below Cobb Cliff and Wings (top left).

Down the High Street on the left, Robt W Edgar`s Bristol Outfitting Stores was part of the block sacrificed for the road widening.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

It is hard to believe that this narrow road was once part of one of the major highways of England which had linked London and Chester since medieval times.

The Five Alls Pub in New London Road can still be seen with the same interesting name . The central figure is a king with the legend ' I rule for all'.

Little has changed in Ardleigh Green Road over the last half century as we look towards the Squirrel's Heath Lane, Cecil Avenue junction. The baker's, which once was Carter's, is now Godfrey's.

The Ship Inn at Gidea Park served the travellers on the Essex Great Road in the days when stage coaches thundered through on their way from London to East Anglia.

The wooden road bridge had to be replaced in 1926: it was rotting, and traffic was becoming heavier.

The building level with the pushchair (just visible in the middle of the road) is the old schoolhouse.

The imposing Craiglands Hydro on Cowpasture Road was opened in 1859, just three years after the Wells House Hydro.

An open-roofed car waits patiently outside the pub while the shepherd guides his flock up the road towards the tiny village.

Not far from Amesbury and Stonehenge, Wilsford and Lake are small villages strung along a back road.