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There is much more activity, with horse- drawn carriages and children playing in the wide road.

This is a peaceful scene, with horse and cart on a deserted and remarkably leafy Lewes Road.

From Yateley, we take the road to Sandhurst, and on to Little Sandhurst; here we see Napper's store, with its fine Hovis advertisements.

Looking southwards along the main road towards Bridport, Rock Cottage and Groom's Cottage face the thatched Rose Cottage on the right.

The rough and traffic-free road shows how very busy our world has become in less than a century.

The Fitzwilliam Museum is in the distance on the right hand side of the road.

A fine prospect of Caterham, taken looking west from the steep scarp slope of the north downs above Crescent Road.

These cottages stand at the top of Pack Hill, near its junction with Church Road and Mayfield, in Upper Wanborough. The Cottage Shop was once a shoemaker's premises.

By the 1950s, new buildings have begun to overshadow the road. Barker's timber yard occupies the low range of buildings on the right.

This photograph shows Churchgate and Belgrave Gate viewed from Gallowtree Gate - 'gate' is derived from the Scandinavian, meaning 'a road to'.

The road alleviated a bottle-neck in the nearby village, allowing traffic an easier route to Nottingham, Newark, Melton and the east coast.

The road behind retains the name; here the most prominent building is Finch & Co's flour mills.

Few would dare to venture onto the roads in the vulnerable contraption driven by the man on the right.

Two toddlers (left) are playing with a toy cart, something they could probably still do, as this steep road leading up to Hampsfell is little used by traffic.

range of shops along the Broadway, ranging from a chemist's, a sweet shop, a gentlemen's outfitter's, a garage, a bank and the gas showroom, but competition was to follow from nearby South Road

The footpaths beside the road have not yet developed into raised paths with kerb stones, but are at least demarcated by a line of grass.

The 16th-century thatched Plough public house with its low ceilings, exposed beams and stone flagged floor is still open today, but the post office, across the road, has closed since the time this photograph

The shallow ford at Darnholm, a tiny hamlet just up the road from Goathland. For decades the place has been a favourite with those who like nothing better than to 'bimble around' by the waters edge.

This photograph focuses on the actual bridge, a pretty little footbridge a few yards south of the main bridge from the A6 trunk road into Haddon Hall. Dorothy Vernon's tomb can be seen in the church.

A horse and cart trundles along the road spanning East Beck, one of two streams that meander through the village - the other is Sandsend Beck.

New Road Side is here still a street of small, traditional shops.

He died in 1935 in a motorcycle accident on the road leading north from Bovington Camp.

The houses in the background are those in Southwell Park Road. The tennis courts and bowling green are to the left.

There is an interesting mix of trades in one building on the far side of the road: a hairdresser and piano shop. What would that inspire - 'Chop-sticks', perhaps? Or maybe 'Hair on a G String'...