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It is also worth noting that all the cars seen here in Fountain Street - an Austin A40, a P4 Rover, a Morris 1000 Traveller, an Austin 1100, two Minis and a Ford Anglia approaching - are British-built.

The first car on the right is a 1956 Ford E83W Utility.

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career.

What a pity that F Sole went in for being a family butcher when the name would have better suited a fishmonger!

The view is south- eastwards from the slopes of Flower's Barrow hill fort, inside the area taken over for D-Day tank training on the Lulworth Ranges in 1943.

Before this bridge was built, the Trent was forded at this point then. In 1830, a wooden footbridge for pedestrians was erected, but cattle and carriages still had to pass through the river.

This photograph looks from the Old School down the A359 to the bridge over the Yeo, where a muddy ford once gave the village its name; this scene has little changed.

This spot, where the road west from Clitheroe crosses the Ribble, was once known as Eadsford, the bridge from which the photograph was taken being built over an ancient ford.

Now really a suburb of Northwich, Hartford has long been a more desirable area in which to live, particularly in the past for the town's wealthier manufacturers.

Howley is one of Warrington's oldest districts, with a simple Norman castle standing guard over the ancient ford at Latchford.

Mr Frost, a local farmer, had to sell some of his land to allow Ford's to build their international distribution centre which opened in 1968.

As implied by its name, there was originally a ford here, and it was one of the few places on the Fylde plain where the river could safely be crossed.

Old Ford Farm is virtually unchanged today. This is believed to be the oldest building in Bideford, dating from the 14th century.

Old Ford Farm is virtually unchanged today. This is believed to be the oldest building in Bideford, dating from the 14th century.

But in the early decades of the 20th century, this small footbridge and the adjacent, spectacular ford provided the only means of passage across the water at this point.

Hawkcombe and Whitehall Cottages are there today, but a bridge now replaces the ford where the child and dog are standing.

This village's name means 'a ford only available in summer'; the church stands above the Bristol Avon. The tall west tower, which has battlements and pinnacles, is early Perpendicular.

The cars add a nostalgic note with Morrises, Fords and Austins parked alongside the pavements.

The Romans established a fort here, Bremetennacum, in AD80 by a ford across the Ribble, and the pillars supporting the porch of the White Bull Hotel are said to have come from one of its

This was the ford by Lud's burial mound (or 'low') which sat on the top of the hill under the present church.

A new Ford Cortina saloon cost £669, and a Zephyr £933.

Despite one motor car, which is possibly a Ford 8, the shoppers here feel safe enough to saunter slowly up the road ignoring the pavement.

In its earliest days the Carno ford was used for the conveyance, by mule and pack horse, of iron ore to the Dowlais Iron Works from the Ras Bryn iron mines.

The waters were so shallow that a ford had sufficed for many years, and this bridge was quite new at the date of the photograph.