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Reaching London Road, we have P.R.

Although the bacon factory closed in the 1920s, the chimney remained until the 1970s when the new ring road was built. The factory on the right bank was turned into residential flats in the 1980s.

This was the main road from Whitby to Teesside - how quiet it was on this occasion!

The development of complex new road systems for Teesside removed everything you can see here. This is a picture full of human interest.

The distinctive chequer-board road crossing and chained railings suggest that 1950s pedestrians were finding traffic more of a hazard.

The bowling green is surrounded by beach huts and set amidst suburbia in St Edmund's Road, with Cordy's Regal restaurant, now The Alex, to the right.

This road, also called Lower Street, leads towards the mill. On the left is the late 17th-century Chequers, where Mrs Edith Turtel offered 'Garage Accommodation for Motors and Cyclists'.

As we can see in this photograph, the market place stands above the main road through the town, and so is often missed by visitors.

It is difficult to realise that the apparently remote St Paul's church now stands adjacent to a busy roundabout at the junction of Pixmore Way and Baldock Road.

We are looking north-westwards up Spring Head Road from its junction with Mill Lane (foreground, right) and the bridge over the River Lim.

In 1935 the buildings, including the maltings, were demolished as part of a road improvement scheme.

On the closure of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Court Road, the churches amalgamated, and Trinity was renamed Holy Trinity.

A set of lights enables people to cross the road in safety between the Health Centre and the chemist, second shop from the end on the left of the picture.

Fifty years ago the main A217 road through Lower Kingswood had not yet been widened.

The stream ran down from Pen Hill through this pond to provide motive power for the corn mill over the road and below the Heifer Inn.

Skeeby was once on the trade route from the Great North Road to Richmond, just two miles further west.

It is quite a panorama; on land to the left, the West Somerset railway curves away from the coast, crossed by the road to Watchet.

We have now passed through Stonebow into the southern part of the High Street, which grew up along the old Roman road south of the walled city.

There is so little traffic at this date that the photographer has been able to risk standing in the middle of the road. Note the National Benzole garage on the right.

The High Street appears quiet with very little traffic; a road sweeper on the left goes about filling his three-wheeled rubbish cart.

Crown House provides a view of London Road and Morden Court and the slightly earlier mock Tudor York Close to the left.

These once quiet roads are now filled with heavy traffic.

The Diamond stone sits alongside the Devizes to Swindon main road that goes through the village.

Across the road James Barlow, 'family grocer and provision merchant,' had the biggest food shop in the town; from the open doorway an appetising smell of ground coffee drifted into the street.