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Since the earlier photograph the road surface has been improved by 'metalling', and many of the old gas lamps have disappeared.

The building of the M4 created vast numbers of jobs, and the road continues to sustain those that remain working in local industry.

Across the road from the Lion is another coaching inn, built originally with a courtyard plan but re-fronted in the early 18th century. It has galleried timber-framed rear wings.

The road to the right leads to Callas Hill and Foxhill.

This is taken from Old Kirton Road, looking towards the capped top of the mill, now Mill Close.

These photographs are not an opportunity to comment on the drinking habits of Newtonians, but an interesting study in contrasting styles in licensed premises - road house, local welcome

Further along, across the road, enlargement of the photograph reveals a branch of Boots – Boots is still on this site today, but in a new shop that was built in the 1960s.

This road was built on the site of Rookery Farm, and an ancient footpath still runs through this estate which was used to service the farm.

Just off Hardwick Road is Girnhill Infants' School, which opened on 30 April 1960 to accommodate youngsters from the huge housing estate which partly replaced the earlier Coal Board houses seen in the

The road to Brynmawr winds around the hillside from the village of Gellifelyn, on the right.

This is where the road between Knutsford and Macclesfield crosses the one from Alderley Edge village to Holmes Chapel.

This was the iron works that made such things as the bridge over Micheldever Road.

It retains a distinctly rural character, yet also has the attributes of a small town with shops on either sideof the road.

At the end of the road from Countersett is Stalling Busk, looking out over Semerwater.

A country lane, a straggle of houses and open countryside is all we see as we look down Collier Row Road with the Church of the Ascension on the right.

This was the main London-Colchester road. Stage-coaches used to change horses at The Plough (right). The pub is the one feature of this scene to stay relatively unchanged.

The two cyclists appear to be freewheeling along the road through Runfold. It was once one of Farnham's hop- growing villages, and poles for the bines can be seen on the far left.

The Gordon Road and Commonside areas of Ansdell still had white­washed fishermen's cottages.

The church site may have been used at an earlier date and lies only a short distance from the line of The Devils Highway, a former Roman road.

This is another view of the High Street, although here the road is much wider. The London Co-operative Society shop can be seen on the right.

The high road over to Boulby can be seen on the right, passing the traditional pigeon lofts. The beck in the foreground still runs brown with the colour of the local ironstone seams.

The trees in the background have grown over what was once a quarry; evidence for it survives in nearby lime kilns, which can be seen from the road.

The road at this junction has traffic going in both directions, unlike today, when as part of the High Street one-way system the traffic now flows towards the market cross.

From 1899 mass was celebrated in a corrugated iron building in Croft Road, but in 1904 the Godalming Catholic Parish was created and a new priest, Father Hyland, was appointed.