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On the other side of the road is a men's clothing store, Baker's, and the Eagle Building accommodating Woolworths.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

Note also the rough pavement setts and the juddering cobbled road. On the left is a boy selling milk from the churn.

On the opposite side of the road, Smugglers has signs offering teas and homemade cakes - no fast food yet.

Moving south we cross the River Ivel by the Girtford Bridge to reach the town of Sandy on the Great North Road, the A1.

The Village, Upton is this quaintly-named road. It leads up to St Mary's, a 19th-century church with its handsome pulpit and a thousand-year-old runic Viking stone in a small showcase.

These were the last buildings on the western edge of the town, on the Exeter road, where Foundry House is now flats and the metal-working premises of J I Blackburn Limited and an entire new housing

Opposite, on the corner with North Allington, the principle towns on the cast-iron road sign are Exeter (straight ahead) and Chard (right). West Court is behind the trees.

Across the Colne the main road to Pinner reaches Batchworth Heath, just before the old Middlesex county boundary.

Ellington lies on the present A14 road to the west of Huntingdon. At Domesday, the manor was held by the Abbot of St Benedict`s, Ramsey, and the parish had a population of about 150.

The Sudbury and Ballingdon Cemetery was opened in 1859 in Newton Road. The two chapels, Anglican and Nonconformist, are linked by an archway, and stand in the centre of the cemetery.

The street follows the course of the Roman road Ermine Street, and is typically without any sign of a bend.

To the west of Thoresby, on the Ollerton to Worksop road, the first Earl Manvers of Thoresby built a small estate village around 1810.

Note also the rough pavement setts and the juddering cobbled road. On the left is a boy selling milk from the churn.

Continuing along the road containing the spa building, this parade of shops is to be found on the right-hand side.

The prominent white-peaked emblem on the right hand side of the road indicates the location of one of the town's remaining coaching inns, the Sugar Loaf Hotel.

These two photographs, taken in Village Road, depict the old village centre. The scene has changed remarkably little over the years, apart from what is sold in the shops.

The two workmen at the end of the road might also like to pass the time of day with a friendly chat.

This 1930s mock-Tudor shopping parade still stands on Rectory Lane as it winds its way south to the junction with the Chipstead Valley Road, where the buildings of the Woodmansterne Treatment Works, belonging

The road leads to the bridge over the River Wenning, which flooded two years ago.

Road-side lamps have also changed in style, and traffic includes a heavy motor lorry (just visible in the distance) and a vintage invalid carriage (left).

The best house is on the right, slightly set back from the road and with a central niche containing an urn. Built about 1835, it became a bank, hence its current name 'The Old Bank House'.

A little north of the High Street Junction, off Abingdon Road, is Gravel Lane, which has a number of farm buildings on each side at its west end.

shout too loud about it, though, as there are many locals who would rather it were back across the border.Tubber Hill is on the outskirts of Barnoldswick; running alongside it is part of the Roman road