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A solitary policeman stands on duty in the middle of the road. The café on the corner of the High Street belonged to Windsor Restaurants Ltd.

Almost an exact repeat of 70425, taken 30 years earlier than this photograph, showing the road entrance to the Embankment on the right.

The old redundant 17th-century bridge over the Test now lies on the north side of the main road.

Crowborough Cross, the intersection of four roads, is situated nearly 245 metres above sea level in Crowborough. Nearby is the Red Cross Hotel (now the Crowborough Cross Hotel).

These cattle walking down the Lewes Road were probably heading for the weekly cattle market.

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

The Kingsley Hotel (right), named after Charles Kingsley who often came to Whitchurch and was inspired to write of his visits to the town, is now several shop units, but The White Hart across the road is

The old Roman road drops steeply down onto the green, via a bridge over the short river from Semer Water, two miles away.

It stands at the top of the steep climb of Bank Road, in the centre of the picture. The Hydro buildings are now the offices of Derbyshire County Council.

We can just see the Ladybower Dam at the end of the reservoir in this view from the Snake Road. The noble escarpment in the left background is Bamford Edge.

It is much more likely to be a 17th- or 18th-century packhorse bridge, used by the 'jaggers' who carried goods by packhorse trains long before the days of metalled roads.

The cobbled entry to the left would become Insall Road, named after a Group Captain Insall, V.C., former commander of the base.

A vessel passes close to Walton Locks and Warrington Wharf before negotiating the Chester Road Swing Bridge.

Facing Undercliff Road are (from left to right) the 1930s Trent's Café; the Town Hall of 1892; the Empire Café; Bent Hill; and the Felix Hotel of 1903, with the Spa Pavilion of 1909 below.

Stramongate is the main approach road into Kendal from the north-east, and means 'the street of the straw men'. St George's Church is in the background.

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Barnwood stands on Ermin Street, which was built by the Romans to link the two important towns of Glevum (Gloucester) and Corinium (Cirencester), so the road we see in this picture

Ellesmere House is beautifully sited just above the main road and overlooking the Mere. The building is now used as a residential home.

The road system around the Square is beginning to be changed, with one side of the street now closed to regular traffic.

The New Town was to be beautiful, and to work well, with wide tree-lined roads densely planted with trees and shrubs.

This village is on Watling Street at the junction with the Northampton to Warwick Road. The older village, Lower Weedon, is to the south-west of Watling Street.

The arrival of motor traffic in Cheltenham meant that road layouts had to be redesigned to facilitate the safe movement of cars and lorries.

The triangular cutwaters were shaped thus so that at road level they created a pedestrian refuge in which people could stand as horses crossed the bridge.