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This view looks at what amounts to 19th-century small-scale development along the Fleckney Road; the whole adds up to a very cordial rural scene, common over southern Leicestershire.

Iron electricity poles line the road; they are of a type only seen in this part of Sussex.

This lovely building is at the southern end of the High Street, in the former market place where the High Street meets Worcester Road and St John`s Street.

Bell Street, part of the original town of Sawbridgeworth, runs from London road eastwards towards the church and the school.

One of these very similar views shows the town on a bright summer day with the road thronged with vehicles and the pavements, benches and sea wall busy with visitors enjoying the Cheshire sunshine and

This broad expanse of the old Portsmouth Road is lined with pollarded trees.

Antiquity shows in the datestone (1660) of the Ram's Head, a coaching inn on the Ormskirk to Preston road. Tarleton's mossland was drained in order to produce crops.

The bus stop site is now the start of the sweeping Church Way inner relief road running behind the Arndale development.

A greensand village, it is slightly off the beaten track and quiet: or at least quiet west of the B3000 Puttenham Hill road, which links the A31 and the A3.

Marsh's stores and Ferring Motors' garage are on the opposite side of the road.

The road on the right leads to the church, dedicated to St Mary and built between the 12th and the 15th centuries.

It was originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk

A splendid open car heads north, driving in the middle of the road. The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917.

The Lynge, a road in Laindon, was named after it, but no longer exists. In 1777 Chapman and Andre refer to Langdon clay, a clear indication of the nature of the soil here.

The new bridge allowed trams to travel beyond Clydebank to Duntocher; the fare from Kilbowie Road to Duntocher was all of a halfpenny!

Many villages have road bypasses, but Thorpe has a river bypass: through traffic uses a stretch of river created by the railway builders in 1844, and only leisure traffic calls here.

This lovely old building stands in Leighton Road, close to its junction with Wood Lane.

Its original value lay in the number of farms and steadings that lay on its route, but its main function today is to provide a relief from the traffic on roads closer to the east of the village

This view from the top of Morgan Street shows the 72ft-high ornamental clock tower and three of the four roads that lead from the Circle.

The archway leads to Dog Alley, the scene of one of Flora Twort's lovely paintings, which used to go through to St Peter's Road.

By 1955 both Russell Street and George Street had become one way, as the road signs indicate.

The furthest building on the right side of the road is the Saracen's Head, which was demolished in October 1957.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Here we have another view of this heavily traffic-ridden main road with its shopping parade. On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.