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The Baptist Chapel in Christchurch Road, built in brick and flint, reflected this style and was opened for divine worship on 18 March 1885.

; one example is Pennies, a half-timbered house thought to have been built in 1606 and mentioned on a map of 1638, and currently incorporated within Dinnages garage in Sussex/ Wivelsfield Road

Beyond the Red Lion (left), in the 1950s still a hotel, the tall many-chimneyed buildings of 1901 flank Corporation Street, the road cut in 1900 and originally intended as the site for council offices

This resulted in 1921 in the first council house estates being built off the Cambridge Road, just before the railway bridge in St Neots, and off Berkley Street in Eynesbury.

The Public Libraries Act was adopted in 1882, and the library was situated in the town hall until 1907 when it moved to the present Carnegie building in Garfield Road; this was undergoing extensive

The remaining three buildings still stand, but the vehicular gateway shown in this view has been moved from Church Lane to the frontage on the B1269 road to Dunsdale and Redcar.

Although Queen's Park is now the only public park within the town, some very senior Loughburians will remember Burleigh Brook Park on Ashby Road.

model homes of the Highbury Estate in Cosham, Wymering Garden City and the neat bungalows and semi-detached properties in Drayton, as well as handsome, detached properties along the Havant Road

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting. Next to the draper's shop on the left is Walmsley's Stationers and Bookshop.

In 1949 the local authority, Billericay Urban District Council, was in despair; it was trying to cope with its own housing problems, as well as the task of dealing with 78 miles of unmade roads

Two years later he designed the workhouse in Wickham Road, which ministered to the material needs of the poor.

The intending attackers spent much of the day in the Duke of York on Nottingham Road, drinking and singing revolutionary songs. Unsurprisingly, they attracted a certain amount of attention.

It was almost lost in the interests of road improvements, but fortunately an alternative scheme was settled on.

There was at least one weir in the river by Isleworth with stakes at its upper end, and this gave its name to the modern Railshead Road where the Crane joins the Thames.

The town had two brickworks, the one on the Warren operating from 1750 to 1919 and one on the Porlock road operating from 1897 to 1947.

Between the road leading up to the mission house and the track forking off to the left of it, lies the village green, very much the heart of the village and a place where generations of village children

In between all this he found time to design very many buildings in the town besides the Grammar School and Priory Road School.

that is passed through rather than a destination in itself for it stands on an important crossroads, where the route between Manchester and the Midlands crosses the Knutsford to Macclesfield road

Belfast had a very effective body managing and improving its harbour long before it had a council able to provide roads, drainage and oversee housing.

Pullman's Westbrook Mill produced soft, chamois type leathers; Gay & Co in Ockford Road worked on small skins such as rabbit; and Rea and Fisher's by the railway, the heavier hides.

Lamp-posts that had lost their lamps now became supports for road directions, and streets were lit by electric lamps on long concrete posts; these were not in the least attractive, but were functional

However, we can derive some consolation from the fact that Billericay was connected with the start of the 'Mayflower' voyage, and that the main road linking Tilbury Fort to Colchester Fort runs through

Tenby was never really designed for use by the motorcar, and apart from some Victorian road widening, with the demolition of some old terraces and properties, it still largely adheres to its medieval

South-east expansion will certainly put pressure on the M1, and on local roads like the A505 and the rat run through Houghton Regis.