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Presumably, however, the Star was able to benefit from the railways too, with Foregate Street Station being just across the road.

There is a good range of timber-framed houses on both sides, and in the distance are the walled grounds, more of a small park, of Mill House on the Appleford Road.

We are looking west along Market Street from the corner of Cable Road, a scene that has changed remarkably little, apart from a big increase in the volume of traffic, especially on sunny weekends and holiday

The buildings stand beneath the Birkenhead Road where it spans the railway line near Meols Station.

Abergavenny's origins lie in the Roman fort of Gobannium, established by the Romans to protect their road up the river Usk.

A steep road from Sabden leads to the well-known pass of Nick o' Pendle.

This view looks north-east along Chertsey Road (now one-way and traffic-calmed) away from the station, which fuelled the commuter-based growth of the town.

In March 1895, the canal drained overnight owing to subsidence, and washed away the surface of Station Road, Hest Bank.

This has all gone, and survives only in the name of a street - Brine Road.

Wilfrid Frost lived at Glyn in Park Road.

Behind the Elm is the Bell Inn, once a coaching inn on the London to Bath road. The elm, thought to have been about 300 years old when it died, has now been replaced with a young oak.

Its more salubrious site was, and remains, the one pictured here on Milford Hill, just east of the city centre beyond the ring road.

Before the railways, journey time was getting close to twelve hours, and the road surface shows what was needed.

Loveday & Sons, the jewellers, have now occupied their shop at Baddow Road corner for over a century.

This picture shows the main through road, which is considerably busier today.

The village also had a well-known post-type windmill, which was sited by the main road. The 14th-century Blackboys Inn has been recently restored after fire damage.

A village on the eastern edge of the St Leonards Forest at a high point on the London to Brighton trunk road. The Red Lion, c1550, is an old coaching inn.

At this time residences along South Down Road had names, not numbers; Samuel George Isherwood was living at Villaverde; Alfred Talbolton, JP at Athelney; Mrs Speigelburg at The Coppice; and John B Laycock

The roads leading to the Pump Room were often chained off to allow drinkers the opportunity of enjoying a leisurely constitutional in and around the Crescent and Valley Gardens.

This is the view from Northampton Road, with the George Hotel roof visible behind the bus station.

Since its grounds were bisected by the redevelopment of Beach Road, the council initiated plans to purchase it in 1947.

The village expanded after World War II and this view along Moorend Road is an interesting example.

This is now a one-way road system, and the van is going the wrong way! There are lots of thatched cottages in Crowland owing to the small town's close proximity to the Norfolk reed beds.

This hill figure cut in the chalk lies on the face of Hackpen Hill, to the right of the road from Wootton Bassett to Marlborough, where it zigzags to climb the hill.