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On Ray Lane, the road to Lingfield, at its junction with Tandridge Lane, stands The Red Barn; in the 1950s it offered luncheon, teas and dinners to travellers.

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

The shop was demolished along with the gardens as part of the road widening scheme.

The third one up the road proclaims 'breakfast, dinner and tea services, toilet and glassware', and the second one 'houses furnished for cash or on the hire purchase system'.

Since 1938 the west side buildings hav gone, demolished for road widening.

Robin Hood's Bay is now half the size of the original village - the centre section slid into the sea, taking with it the new road.

The ground drops to the river, which is crossed by a bridge on the Northampton Road.

These two views look along Thigwall Road.

At the entrance to the Norman church is a notice that reads: 'Enter this door as if the floor within were gold/ And every wall of jewels, of wealth untold./ As if a choir/ In robes of fire/ Were saying

Four small children watch the photographer with interest as he immortalises this stretch of Wharf Road.

The massed ranks of the staff pose outside the post office, which opened in West Street after occupying several addresses in the High Street and Petworth Road.

Here we are looking towards the Bawtry Road past The Harvey Arms (right) and the adjacent stables. Behind the green is the village pond, and to the right of the pub is the Old Bakery, built in 1878.

Hockerill Street leads downhill into the town from the crossroads with the London to Newmarket road. Each corner was once occupied by a public house or inn.

Skegness and Porthcawl, held speed events for sports cars along the sands or the promenade, and it was possible to tax and equip high-powered cars such as the 2-litre Grand Prix Sunbeam for use on the roads

Opposite the Vectis Tavern is Terminus Road, where the Newport to Cowes Railway Company built its station in 1862.

In the foreground are Nos 1 and 2 Debden Road. No 1 is divided by a drainpipe from 100 High Street.

Wootton ran his stables at Treadwell House, off Downs Road. He had come to Epsom in 1906 when he was a boy, arriving with his father Richard from Australia.

For centuries, the repair of bridges and maintenance of roads was the responsibility of the parishes in which they were situated, though important crossing points were often maintained through a levy raised

On the exposed Wolds, the ironstone church is situated on the south side of the village street, away from the main A606 Nottingham to Stamford road.

Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.

The road is the A52.

Freebrough Hill, located on the edge of Moorsholm on the A171 Guisborough- to-Whitby moor road, is steeped in legend.

By an ancient tradi- tion he is supposed to have stopped at a well on the Bedford Road for a drink before continuing on his way, eventually tak- ing ship for France and exile.

Studs on the road surface mark the only traffic crossing in Kettering at this date. On the right, Gordon Thoday, with branches throughout East Anglia, sold dress fabrics.