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This photograph successfully shows the long incline of Perrymount Road. The bus coming up the hill would have already passed the recreation ground.

Taken across the road from the Wellington Inn, this view is looking south along the village.

Like the later County High, it was on Easemore Road. Much extended, it now serves as a college.

This quiet residential road is very close to the centre of the town, yet even that fact has not saved the cinema on the left from demolition.

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.

Here the view of the kiosk is all but obliterated by a telephone exchange box, a police telephone box and the large road sign which gives directions to Stoke, Stafford, Rugeley and the

Iwerne (pronounced Youen) Minster stands on the road to Blandford, and boasts this fine peace -rather than war - memorial.

The road leads to the sea and the ferry service to Fleetwood across the River Wyre.

The cobbled areas to the sides of the road remain an attractive feature today, although they are usually covered in motor cars.

This road runs south to Stokesley, some five miles away. The Mobil petrol station is just off to the left - they were evidently offering Green Shield Stamps in return for purchases at that time.

This is the lower end of the High Street, with the Long Shop complex off to the right and Victoria Road to the left.

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.

Harbour Road has changed considerably since this photograph was taken. The car park has disappeared with the building of flats and shops.

The road beside St Paul's Church has been widened, and in the process the pub has gone, and so have all the terraced houses that can be seen beyond.

The Cross is the name given to this road junction in the centre of the town, and does not refer to the drinking fountain pictured here.

The building, now a private residence, is on the road to Cartmel, and is nearly opposite the former Constabulary Station.

Traffic restrictions and the roundabout by the Whyteleafe Tavern are still many years away, but the post office remains at 217 Godstone Road on the right.

A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border. There is chalk quarrying being carried out on the hillside on the left.

The elegant street lamps were a feature of this road. To w a r d s t h e P i e r

The road opposite leads to Willow Vale. The bunting probably means that it is carnival time, which is held annually in September; the first carnival was held in 1927.

Services operated were Ferry Road to Torpoint (fares 1d and 2d); the Barbican to Turnchapel and Oreston; Admiral's Hard to Cremyll (Mount Edgcumbe); and Mutton Cove to Cremyll.

Upwey stands on the high road between Weymouth and Dorchester and features in Thomas Hardy's novel 'The Trumpet Major'.

Just across the road is the Gigmill pub, a reminder of Stourbridge's days as a wool town in the 17th century. A gig was a machine which raised the nap on cloth.

Sutton Coldfield initially grew in linear fashion along the Birmingham-Lichfield road. It retained its predominantly rural character until industry began to develop in the 17th and 18th centuries.