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Whether arriving from the harbour or the Glenarm Road, this was the first view of the aptly named Main Street.

The road has not changed, and the route into the Market Place is still the same; however, as in most of these photographs, the telegraph poles have long since gone.

The wider area now regarded as Teddington, stretching from the river through Bushy Park, Fulwell and Waldegrave Road, was countryside - a mix of heathland and forest.

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

Close to the road, the solid but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added

The third (bottom left) was taken looking along Riverside north with the gardens of the Red Lion on the right; this was a most exclusive seating area, but it has since been lost to road improvements

You will notice that the shops there, on the Chester Road end of Birmingham Road, are set back quite significantly compared with those at the Penns Lane and Emmanuel Church end of the shopping

Only one non- Christian group has established a place of worship in Stafford in recent times - the Sikh Gurdwara in Tithe Barn Road.

century, travellers in horse-drawn carriages from London would see the welcome sight of the Queen's Head and the spire of the church of St Mary and St Hugh in the background as they rounded the bend in the road

The first of these were built in Noreuil Road, which was named after a little village of some 100 inhabitants near Arras in France.

To our left is the entrance to the Old London Road, which leads to Mickleham, one of Dorking’s neighbouring parishes. The village boasts many grand buildings.

Everything for the public service, such as cabs and lighting and good roads and order, is admirably managed at both places; but I very much doubt if 'old salts' would recognise the Portsmouth of

This resulted in 1921 in the first council house estates being built off the Cambridge Road, just before the railway bridge in St Neots, and off Berkley Street in Eynesbury.

The Public Libraries Act was adopted in 1882, and the library was situated in the town hall until 1907 when it moved to the present Carnegie building in Garfield Road; this was undergoing extensive

Infants' classes were later added to the school, and in 1874 a new school for boys was built in Aughton Street, adjoining what is now Park Road.