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The picture shows the road past the school with the Priory on the right. The scene today is little changed.

The 1879-dated Reading Room is down the street from Rock House (right of centre), with the gable-end of the Three Horseshoes in the foreground (far right). Its enamelled sign is for Colman's Mustard.

Road widening and drainage works resulted in the demolition of the cottage on the bend. The modern white gabled houses in the distance, Swan Mews, were built in 1995.

On the other side of the road is a lamp post advertising the post office. Today the post office is gone, but a modern, larger lamp of similar style is attached to the wall of Carlton House, No 25.

There is a road crossing nearby.

In one form or another is has stood on the site for centuries; it carries the main road from the south; it is a symbol of the involvement by the town's citizens with their river.

The dominant building opposite the shops in Queen's Road was the Congregational church, which was built in 1864/65.

George Hilton`s business (extreme left) had expanded across the road to the newly built brick building on the right of the photograph.

This was the gateway that led to the road to London. In the 10th century, when permission was granted for a house to be built on the bar, the yearly rentcharged was sixpence.

The Ramsden Estate was demanding too high a price and would benefit from the new roads by building houses on the parts they refused to sell.

Originally known as Town Street or Sheffield Road, it was developed into a busy shopping street selling, among other things, tourist gifts.

The old road curved through Little and Great Eccleston, but the by-pass of 1940 split these two villages. In 1823 William Bennet renewed his licence for the White Bull (right).

The cooling towers of the new District Hospital in Weston Road became the source of the worst outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease ever to occur in this country, possibly in the world.

All of this part of the street was dug up during the extensive road works of early 2004.

Leeds legacies, including the Corn Exchange (1860), the Mechanics' Institute (1860), the Oriental Baths (1866)and shops on Cookridge Street (1864), together with a private house in Headingley at 17 Alma Road

Some visitors to Hertfordshire think that Thorley lies on the main road between Bishop's Stortford and Sawbridgeworth - this should, correctly, be called Thorley Street.

It is hard to believe that the main York to Beverley Road passes around the pond on the left. The village was built around the Manor House, later surrendered to Henry VIII after the dissolution.

We can see the Church Street Road Bridge to the left, and the land upon which the church is built slopes down quite steeply to the river.

The Roman road from Ribchester to Ikley passes through Downham Park at the end of the village.

hole golf course situated just off Portsmouth Lane on the borders with Lindfield, whilst cricketers can still enjoy the recreation ground next to the centrally located Clair Hall in Perrymount Road

The first post office was in the Shambles in Lancaster Road – it was simply a small room connected with a dwelling house, and quickly proved inadequate.

In the 18th century, The Red Lion was a popular stopping point on the London to Portsmouth road before the stage coaches began the long haul up to the wild and treacherous wastes of Hindhead Common, the

Some of the freeholders had been setting up stalls in the middle of the road that were now becoming permanent structures.

Some of the freeholders had been setting up stalls in the middle of the road that were now becoming permanent structures.