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On the right-hand side of the road the shops in view and all beyond it have been similarly redeveloped.

Lowfield Heath is near the old London to Brighton main road. The White Lion Inn, left, also serves teas.The Stores, run by J F Mitchell, has the door open awaiting customers.

Chalets, a villa and the Bay View Hotel overlook the Hive and Burton Beach from the end of Beach Road. The sandy rocks of Burton Cliffs project towards Lyme Bay (left).

In fact, Disley has always been a roadside settlement: its existence goes back to a time when a Roman road came through here.

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

An Anglo-Saxon church was built across the road towards the castle, and burials are recorded here from AD700.

On the right, by the main road, which had not long been built at the time of this photograph, is a cluster of prefabs, temporary housing after World War II.

The High Street starts to curve its way around the church, and motorists were no doubt aided by the solid white line in the middle of the road.

Framed beneath the spreading tree, which previously stood within the boundary of Whitehall before the road-widening process was embarked on in the 1930s, is this view of the Broadway looking south.

The Leeds-Liverpool canal runs behind the church and crosses this road via an aqueduct.

At the south end of the High Street the road widens to a pleasant green, formerly a market place.

Beyond in the centre of the road is the original Shambles building, an enclosed market erected in 1825.

This stone-built pub on the main road between Grantham and Lincoln was probably built in the 18th century as a farmhouse.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

This pleasant market town sits on the road from Thetford to Norwich, and was once a resting place for pilgrims – it still has a fine Guild Chapel dedicated to St Thomas à Becket.This well-maintained timbered

The bus stop is still in the same place, but today's vehicles would certainly not stop on the wrong side of the road!

The trees in the distance mark the site of Stamford School (note the old-fashioned school warning sign), which was rebuilt in 1874 set back from the road. The Shell garage is now a car wash.

It is now replaced by a block of flats, while the foreground field is now a tennis court; behind the photographer are now modern houses along Church Road.

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

For the next one hundred years, it carried all road transport serving the Isle of Thanet. Toll charges were imposed until the mid 1970s.

The girls certainly would not wheel their bikes in the middle of the road in the 21st century. Note the open-topped bus and the motor cars on the right.

The wall and trees on the right went for an access road to a public car park and library in the 1960s.

The narrow road has gone, widened in the name of progress.

Straddling Stock Ghyll, which runs by the side of the main road, this curious little structure is probably the best-known feature of Ambleside.