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East from St Peter's Hill, Avenue Road descends towards the River Witham, lined by middle-class late Victorian semi-detached villas.

There were two hotels in the village, the Vine in the village centre and the Grange along Sea Bank Road just behind the sand hills.

At one time Brentford boasted a great many coaching inns, for the town was the first stage for stagecoaches leaving London on the Great West Road to Bath and Exeter.

In medieval times St John's was a cluster of timber-framed houses round the church, and a busy junction on the roads to Malvern, Hereford and Leominster.

In the past it was an important coaching stop on the roads to the North. The Waverley Cafe, opposite the Cross, advertises Lune Salmon Teas, no doubt freshly caught from the local river.

Railton Road runs from Brixton and today, at its south end, it continues to be a one-way street. It is unusual that many of the shops have not changed.

The soldier is in his best uniform and is probably on his way to the drill hall in Ashley Road, depot for A and B companies of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Cheshire Regiment.

The average wage was around £17 a week, and the annual road fund licence was £17.10.0d. A new Ford Cortina saloon cost £669, and a Zephyr £933.

Half a mile downstream the river passes through Sir Robert Taylor's supremely graceful and beautiful sandstone bridge of the 1770s that still carries the busy A4 London to Bath road.

Today a road splits the gardens between the church and dovecote.

Looking from South Street the general appearance of Victoria Road has changed little in the last 50 years.

Brand new, still with scaffold planks stacked behind the gate, the Secondary School in St Andrew's Road was built on land given by Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs Thomas Alfred Colfox.

The reverse view from D69020, looking south towards the ancient cross-roads of Watling Street and the Icknield Way.

Rose Cottage (left), a handsome Gothick Revival villa on the corner of Queens Road and Quaker Lane, was extended and converted into the Victoria Cottage Hospital in 1899.

Bawtry was once an important coaching stop on the old Great North Road, where horses were changed on the journey north to Scotland.

Cluntergate is one of the main roads leading out from the centre of Horbury, whose main claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of the famous 18th-century architect always, but erroneously, known as

Elvet Bridge was built by Bishop Hugh le Puiset in 1160 to give the peninsula direct road access to the south. It was repaired by Bishop Richard Fox between 1494 and 1501.

By 1925 there were just over a million vehicles of all types on the roads, of which 695,000 were privately-owned cars.

Away from the tourist area of Beach Road the little village of Hemsby remained unspoilt for many years. Still standing without change is St Mary's.

Over time, the Bythesea Road site has expanded to include the County Library and Records Office.

A rather complex road junction now marks the spot where these gates once stood.The gates, signifying the entrance to the Bevois Mount Estate, date back to 1844, but were removed before World War Two

The left-hand side of Winchester Road remains constant, with the pub and the timber-framed cottage still to be seen.

The road is widening as we look back towards the High Street. Owen the pharmacist was at No 61 (right) until 1958, next door to the King David Inn, which was to close in 1973.

The old Post Office is now a house and the front gardens have been lost owing to the widening of the very busy road.