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The high-roofed White Hart, along the road, survives to this day.

Crown Hill was the setting for an unusual wager in 1936: a Grays confectioner was bet that he could not cycle backwards up the 1-in-7 road. He

North of the church the road runs along the medieval sea bank.

Station Road is readily recognisable as it drops away from the underground station towards Hale Lane and Mill Hill.

This is a classic photograph of a north London suburb around the turn of the century, with a mix of design and scale in the road-side buildings.

In this view the trees are more mature and obscure the long facades of this eleven hundred foot long road.

This was swept away in 1933 for the road improvements seen here, still pompous and vandal fresh.

East from St Peter's Hill, Avenue Road descends towards the River Witham, lined by middle-class late Victorian semi-detached villas.

Situated in woodland near the Midhurst to Cocking road, the Cobden Monument was erected in memory of Richard Cobden MP, an advocate of free trade and an anti-Corn Law agitator.

By the time of this photograph, the view from the Beaconsfield Road had changed very little over the previous twenty years or so, except for the addition of the garage next to the parked vehicle (right

Wistow Hall sits comfortably by its artificial lake, even though Wistow Road, from Kilby to Kibworth Harcourt, runs directly past the front door.

The bustle of what must have been a market day is evident in the thronging crowds around the clock-tower and the busy road.

This view towards the Ship Canal shows London Road free of today's endless stream of traffic.

The Scotland Road area can be seen in the distance - this was at a time before the impact of the building of the Cockhedge Shopping Centre in the 1980s.

This view looks north towards the cross-roads; the London- Holyhead telegraph poles are in situ. Urchins, horses and carts dominate the carriageway.

This junction of two streets marks the site of the former market place, with the stolid red-brick White Lion, on the extreme right, and the King of Prussia pub along the road on the left, ready to slake

The iron bridge (demolished in 1978) brought the line from Exeter, and did not run parallel to the road bridge.

Turning north into the upper Exe valley, we enter the Exmoor National Park at Dulverton, on the Exford Road in the tributary valley of the River Barle.

Beverley Cottage of the 1850s has a battlemented parapet, and beyond are two crescents, each flanking the junction of the promenade with Sea View Road.

The scene has hardly changed at all, except that there are now more houses beyond the road. Like so many villages locally, the population has grown considerably in the last few years.

Being so near the old Roman road from Manchester to York, and being so well-placed on many routes, it has always had a reputation for putting up visitors and travellers.There was once a royal hunting

It is odd that the street lighting is only on the left side of the road, supported by the telephone poles.

The western side was then demolished and rebuilt, but it was another seven years before the eastern side was pulled down to give the road the width which exists today.

The iron footbridge spanning Valley Road can be clearly picked out to the left of and below the Grand Hotel.