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Known locally as 'The Cantilever', this high level fixed bridge provides a welcome escape route when the Knutsford and London Road swing bridges are closed.

This steep curving road is celebrated for its row of 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century cottages in tile-hung brick and stucco, which stagger uphill raised above the roadway in traditional Surrey fashion.

The Victorian development of Torquay was definitely the province of the well-heeled, with sumptuous villas built along carefully contoured roads.

The beautiful surrounding coastline is lonely and unspoiled once the roads and traffic are left behind.

Thatch, unsurfaced road and total absence of traffic was the norm. Today, most of these views have gone.

The cobbled streets are much in evidence, and the road belongs to pedestrians.

Indeed, little has changed, save the re-routing of the main road that ran through the centre.

Sherborne School for Girls dating from 1899 and founded by Mrs Kenelm Wingfield Digby, is here seen on Bradford Road - its home from 1903.

This elegant single span over the river Severn takes the A4133 Droitwich to Tenbury Wells road. It was built in 1828 by that noted engineer Thomas Telford.

The beautiful surrounding coastline is lonely and unspoiled once the roads and traffic are left behind.

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

Sixty years on, Beccles has declined as a port, with goods being carried more by road. The church is unusual in that the 92 feet high tower is actually separate from the nave.

From high up on Yeld Road, the parish church makes an interesting study. Compare this view with photographs 73886 and B6020, taken in later years, and note the changes - or lack of them.

Once there had been a bowling green near the town centre, commemorated by Bowling Green Road. When Charles Wicksteed opened the park, bowls and putting became popular with the people who lived nearby.

Once there had been a bowling green near the town centre, commemorated by Bowling Green Road. When Charles Wicksteed opened the park, bowls and putting became popular with the people who lived nearby.

Roads around Bristol were turnpiked from the 1720s, though many were short stretches and often only seven feet wide.

Children walk along the road with their mother. Behind the brick wall is a late Victorian farmhouse, and opposite this some newly-built bungalows with new gardens. The Lanes lead to Over Mill.

At this point the main Leominster to Hereford road starts to climb the steep hill. Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction.

Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park.

There are cart tracks in the loose, unsealed road surface. Children wait at the roadside, perhaps for transport to school. There are no vehicles in sight; it was a quiet village.

We can see a tram climbing North Road. When the trams first ran in 1901, only one had brakes strong enough to use the hill, so passengers had to change at the top.

The shops on the left were built with bricks from the Nevendon Road brickworks. The shrubs conceal Ladybrow, a former doctor's house and surgery.

A range of 15th- and 16th-century timber- framed houses, some jettied, the Rose and Crown follows the curve of a lane linking Ipswich Road and East Street.

The road is now narrower with wider pavements.