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This narrow road hardly looks like a high street! On the side of the house facing us is the date 1595. Behind the trees on the left is the church of St Michael.

The memorial in St Giles dates back to 1841; it stands on an island in the road and was designed by George Gilbert Scott. Behind it is the Church of St Mary Magdalen.

Returning to the Great North Road, we come to Buckden.

Cracoe is a small hamlet of mainly 17th- and 18th-century houses on the minor road between Skipton and Grassington.

The three-arched buttressed bridge at Fremington has spanned the rushing waters of the Swale for centuries, and it still carries the main B6270 valley road today.

By 1903 the George and Dragon (of the Commercial Hotel sign) looks directly across the road at its rival, the now relocated Dunlop Temperance Hotel (above the Fry's Pure Cocoa signed shop window).

As we leave the station, the first street we see is Dorridge Road. Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.

Lickeys by car today (though there are plenty of buses), but from 1913 to 1924 they came by bus, and from 1924 to 1952 on the hugely popular Number 70 tram, which served nearby Rednal Terminus on Lickey Road

The original village remained agricultural, but a subsidiary settlement grew up on the Bristol road which had already become a sizeable suburb when Northfield was incorporated into Birmingham in 1911.

St Michael's church stands on Church Road close to Lower Green. Its predecessor was an important medieval church, but it was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1950, sad to say.

Taken from near the Wells Road above the south bank of the River Avon, this is an archive view, for much was destroyed in the Baedeker and other bombing raids during World War II.

Shipping in the roads lies off a somewhat forlorn Grays riverside park, complete with a boating pool and, here, a few benches; along all the estuary, high concrete flood barrier walls now obstruct long

Felton stands on the north bank of the Coquet, and it was here that the Great North Road once crossed the river by way of the old bridge featured in the picture.

An obelisk has also been erected at the end of the road to commemorate the sacrifices of the Dover Patrol during both World Wars.

Today, heavy traffic thunders close by on the road in the foreground (the A3094), but drivers do not see the church because of the screen of trees which has grown up along the wall in front of it.

The architect responsible for the rebuilding St Mary's was W H Brakespeare, who, in the 1870s, also designed the since-demolished St Paul's Methodist Church, Enville Road.

As we approach Richmond, this view from the west bank looks towards the Petersham Road across to the former Messum's Boatyard.

The roads inland were narrow and uninviting. It was only in the late Victorian era when builders began to throw up lines of villas overlooking the sea that Woolacombe's attractions were discovered.

In Claremont Road either the cabby or his fare wait patiently.

In Bury Road is the Memorial Garden, formerly part of the Severalls.

This was demolished to widen the road shortly after the photo was taken.

Named after Rokesley, a 15th-century owner of the surrounding farmland, Ruxley Lane links the roads from Ewell to Chessington and to Kingston, and crosses the Hogsmill River south of Tolworth.

Here we see busy shoppers, but little traffic - one man (centre right) is even able to pause in the middle of the road to pick something up!

The first Welwyn Stores was founded in 1921 at Guessens road, but it closed in July 1939 when the new, larger stores was opened in the centre of the new town.