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Beside the imposing 19th-century bank building, which overlooks the corner of Blackburn Road, rises a naked steel tower, a herald of the monotonous shopping developments that have robbed

This view looks south along Wigan Road to the Anderton Arms, now managed as an Italian restaurant.

The roads inland were narrow and uninviting.

The Georgian style can be seen following along the left side of Leys Avenue and on Station Road at Lloyd's Bank (left).

The New Inn can be seen in this photograph, on the right-hand side of the road.

This view shows the junction of the two roads, where The Vernon Arms has been offering refreshment to travellers for many years.

It remains a village of beautiful cottages on the high road between Exeter and Dorchester.

The white house across the road was, until 1908, The Sun - a rival for The Star (opposite).

This is the busy A390, but a lull in the traffic has allowed the photographer to stand in the middle of the road.

A visitor from 1955 would be rather confused by this view (taken from the gateway of Cotton End House), as the war memorial was moved in 2001 from the centre to the right-hand side of the road and

The attractive Beehive Cottage on the right was originally the lodge to Captain Stopford's house on Ashby Road. That house, alas, was demolished, and the site used to build the Community Centre.

This one, on the Ashby Road, is still used by the Rugby and Daventry Sailing Club. The larger reservoir nearer to the town is now the centre of the country park.

A headline on a newspaper placard reads: 'Russia's terms to Britain', referring to Russia's desire to create a formal alliance against Nazi Germany.

Further down on the left is the road junction for Llangattock and Crickhowell just before the white building, the Beaufort Arms.

Just up the road is Greenway House, built by Sir Walter Raleigh's half-brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert, and later home to Agatha Christie.

This view looks towards the town from the junction of Anstey Road, Normandy Street and Paper Mill Lane.

These once quiet roads are now filled with heavy traffic.

In the week this photograph was taken you could enjoy a performance of the Royal Carl Rosa Opera.The other Leeds theatres were The Royal in Land's Lane,The Queen's in Meadow Road and the Empire Palace

The High Street, with many cars, and a tarmacadam road, is much changed from earlier pictures. Simonds Bank is now Barclays, and Armstrongs has become Eighteens.

An office block has replaced those quaint shops, but the Duke of York survives, now minus its covered porch, at the junction with the Frimley Road.

The buildings housing the premises of Hedges & Son (right), however, have been demolished and replaced by a road and open space leading to a pedestrian shopping precinct.

Cowplain developed because of the main road from Portsmouth to London; its name means 'a clearing for cows'.

This is the extremely busy A15 main road heading north to Folkingham, Lincoln and eventually the Humber Bridge and south (the way we are facing) to Market Deeping and Peterborough.

There were two hotels in the village, the Vine in the village centre and the Grange along Sea Bank Road just behind the sand hills.