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The age of the car has now arrived, with the front of a Wolseley 4/44 peeping out alongside a very new Ford Anglia.

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.

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

Two bridges and a ford cross the stream that flows past the Blue Anchor Inn, which stands at the centre of the village.

The Ford garage, Taw Vale Motors, occupies what was Hopgood Haulage Contractors. This view was taken from the raised South Walk.

The medieval bridge stands on the site of a ford, once the only crossing between Rochester and Maidstone. The Carmelite friary, rededicated in 1949, is now a place of pilgrimage.

Although the River Wyre is here quite wide, it could be forded at low water, and Shard derives from a dialect word meaning 'cattle crossing'.

In 1509 William Ford, a merchant, founded and endowed the Greyfriar's Hospital, a half-timbered almshouse for five poor men and their wives.

The name Kersey means 'cress island', a fact to contemplate when crossing the Brett by bridge or ford. At the top of the hill is one of the best-known views in Suffolk.

Historians are of the opinion that when the forester Purkiss took the body of William Rufus to Winchester, he must have travelled through or near Chandler's Ford, and roads here have been given the names

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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