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This view looks along the High Street from the Vicarage Road junction, now a mini-roundabout.

That year the hospital moved to Charlton Road and Cricklade College took overe the workhouse as classrooms.

Meads Road, of course, had old trees already: a villa is seen on the right, and on the left carriages shelter from the sun alongside the flint wall fronting Saffrons Park, now a sports ground.

Just west of Cootham, the main road curves away north-west to by-pass the Parham estate, whose east drive continues straight ahead.

These artisan terraces still line the Ford Road, their view terminated by the Roman Catholic cathedral of St Philip Neri, giving the town on its ridge a distinctly French character in distant views

Cobbled pavements and wide roads are legacies of the period.

The road from the village ends at this beach, which is known as the Gap.

The road from the village ends at this beach, which is known as the Gap.

East of the village, the Shelford Road climbs on to the red sandstone hills, which are undercut by the River Trent to form river cliffs.

The gable-ended building in the distance has long since gone, and modern houses have been built on both sides of the Badby Road.

In the 1950s the retailing element of the Cooperative movement was still popular, and Irby sports two premises on either side of the road to prove the point.

On the opposite of the road to the thatched Three Chimneys next door are Falcon Cottage, White Doves bed & breakfast and the recently built Bonnetts Flour Sac.

Station Road, behind the photographer, is the main shopping street, and now has two major supermarkets.

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

The Asshetons looked after their village.Almost all the villagers had jobs on the estate.The Roman road from Ribchester to Ikley passes through Downham Park at the end of the village.The grave of

Battlemented parapets of the 15th-century nave and porch of St Giles Parish Church are seen here on the corner with North Road (left).

Across the road, on the corner of Mersey Street, the Packet House Inn hints at the days when packet boats carried passengers along the Mersey to Liverpool.

Bishop's Wharf can be seen behind the half-timbered buildings on Knutsford Road (right).

When the civic facilities moved to Newbold Road in 1936, Marks & Spencer took over the site, but its original elegant façade can still be seen.

The trees and wall on the right disappeared in widening the road in the 1950s. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

The castellated entrance to Townley Hall, on the A671 Todmorden Road at Burnley Wood, was photographed when it was still a private estate.

Stanhill is a small community on one of the B-roads between Oswaldtwistle and Blackburn. It was in this building in 1764 that James Hargreaves lived when he invented the Spinning Jenny.

The hamlet of Mill End, about a mile west of the centre of Rickmansworth, grew up along the main road to Uxbridge to serve a watermill and factories.