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This photograph was taken at the corner of Sambourne Road looking towards Carter's Corner, Nos 50–54A High Street and No 2 Portway, recently restored by the Warminster Preservation Trust.

One Sunday in 1945 a tremendous explosion rocked the village, and a ball of flames erupted from behind the trees on Warwick Road. A

The view is northwards along Shore Road to New Swanage and the 1898-built Grand Hotel (centre right).

A car emerges from Victoria Avenue on to Shore Road (lower right).

Offering both Shell and British Petroleum, this was established beside what used to be the A351 road into the Isle of Purbeck.

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 sided

On the other side of the road the Great George has its familiar and rather curious two-sided sign - it has George Bernard Shaw and George Washington on it.

Compare this photograph with R67001 - the new bridge carries one of the approach roads to the Jubilee Bridge. Today the canal comes to an end near here.

Marquis of Abergavenny.The lands of Eridge have been in the hands of the Nevill family in a direct male line from 1450.The scene is much the same today, with business continuing beside the busy main road

There is a larger shop across road. A woman waits patiently against the fence by the pond; she has just come from the swimming pool area.

The view is unchanged today, save for a surfaced road and much more traffic.

The cobbles on the road in the foreground have gone, and the trees have grown more, but otherwise this view is little changed.

This view looks east along the High Street, which lies on the Roman road between London and Colchester. High Street is rich in pleasing architecture, and the scene is little changed today.

The electric tram is in its first year of operation - a generating station on Newport Road provides power.

Weston is a tiny village, little more than a cluster of cottages leading to a 15th-century church at the end of a no through road.

These gardens in Groundwell Road were officially opened on 15 November 1950 by HRH Princess Elizabeth on her visit to the town.

The 'Dangerous Bend' sign (left) says it all, though anyone trying to find the hairpin today will need to take a small detour off the straightened B3074 Higher Blandford Road between Corfe Hills

This open plain of sea front has since been divided by the sea wall and a modern motor road.

To the left is the Monkton Road, and on the right is Tothill Street.

This is Chorley's main street, the A6, Lancashire's main north to south road; it used to get very busy in the summer.

Even as late as 1728 the road south was worn deeply with heavy carriages.

In 1830 Haywards Heath was described as 'a byword for the wilderness of its aspect, the rusticity of its few and scattered cottages, and the miryness of its roads'.

The village, about three miles north-west of Rye, lies on the Beckley to Rye road. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, hops were recorded as its main crop.

The bridge carries the road over the River Deben, where a short-lived quay was built in the 19th century. A bridge of 1764 was replaced by this one of white brick and stone in 1798.