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The whole area around the mill has been developed, and the road in the foreground is now a dual carriageway with pedestrian-controlled traffic lights.

The view down the High Street has changed very little, but the increased volume of traffic has brought traffic lights to the junction with the road to Over.

Without the modern wide road that now snakes by, this scene looks charming and peaceful.

The 'Salford City' passes numerous stacks of imported timber at the yard in Station Road, Latchford.

The Swan Hotel 1926 The Swan Hotel stands on the outskirts of the village of Grasmere, on the A591, and was formerly a coaching inn on the main road between Windermere and Keswick.

This corner, just before the Anchor public house, is still familiar to any coast road traveller. On the right the houses still offer boat trips up the nearby creek to Blakeney Point.

In the valley immediately below, a new road is now a blot on the landscape.

To the left, a diagonal road of houses rises en route to Llanbedr. In the centre in the background is the Sugar Loaf.

This later view shows the improved road towards Camberley, and a familiar Aldershot and District bus. They ran everywhere in all weathers, and were 100% reliable.

Within a few years the road layout was changed to incorporate a traffic island.

On the Scarborough to Driffield road, Langtoft is an increasingly popular Wolds village.

The school was built in 1880 in The Stennack, the main road that leads out of St Ives to the west. The building was a school until 1984. It was converted into a doctor's surgery in 1992.

The village slipway, up and down which fishing boats are still hauled to protect them from winter storms, is down the road to the left.

The road has been upgraded, and modern housing has appeared wherever space permits. Note the 'up to date' fencing on the right.

Princess Christian had always been interested in developing the nursing profession in Windsor and she bought two houses, on the corner of Clarence Road and Trinity Place, in 1894 to establish a Nursing

The road climbs here along the chalk amid the beech woods of the Paradise Plantation. It picturesquely linked the old town with Meads, and was a popular stroll for visitors.

At the tailor's across the road, blazers are selling for 32/6 - £1.62 in today's money.

The house on the cor- ner of Alexandra Road (right) was for many years a dentist's.

A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.

This view is looking toward Broad Street with the road to Weston-super-Mare on the right.

This photograph was taken 2 years before the famous statue of King Alfred was erected in the middle of the road, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of his death - albeit belatedly, as he died in AD 899

Before railways and metalled roads, there were only two main routes into Devon.

Two days of snow accompanied by a hurricane resulted in nearby Salcombe being cut off for five days, while here at Chillington the snowdrifts were 12 feet deep; it took fifty men to clear the road to Kingsbridge

Travelling here in 1871 would not have been a venture to take lightly: it was nearly fifteen miles' distance on unmade roads from Ashburton.