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Continuing north-west towards Felbridge from the Moat Road junction we see the Italianate Church of Our Lady and St Peter, looking south east.

Although quiet, even in 1955, Bondgate is on the line of the turnpike road between Long Easton and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

Cars begin to clog the roads, even in the sixties. Pontefract was a major coaching town, and many inns were established for this trade.

The town sits beside a Roman road across which is the hill of Caer Caradoc.

Barford straddles the busy A418 road and has suffered architecturally as a consequence.

houses and pantiled roofs characterise this photograph of the deserted Main Street of Green Hammerton, a small village in the Vale of York and on Roman Dere Street, just off the main A59 Harrogate to York road

Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.

The pretty little village of Barbon, near Kirkby Lonsdale, lies in the hills above the Lune Valley beneath Thorn Moor, on the minor road through Barbondale to Dent.

This is the seaside end of the road through the village.

Parallel with Milford Street and leading to Market Square, this was a major shopping street before the new ring-road turned it into a cul-de-sac.

Over the last 200 years or so, erosion has only managed to claim two rows of houses and a road.

The Beach c1960 With room to spare, this looks as though it was an ideal place to learn the basics of driving before tempting the fates on the open road.

After the horses had been changed at Kingsfold, the stagecoaches ran through Warnham down Little London Hill, past Warnham Corner at the junction of Station Road.

This magnificent building stands right beside the road but is hidden by what is now a much taller, and thicker, hedge.

This stretch of the road survives as a walkway in the precinct. Gina Murray's hairdressing salon, on the far left, offered 'Permanent Waving from 21/-. Satisfaction Guaranteed'.

Once an important and flourishing market on the old coach road, Lenham embodies a fine mix of building styles from medieval through to Georgian in its houses and shops.

Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park by 1890.

The road surface improved and traffic increased in the intervening years.

This is the junction of Chapel Street with a now widened Tilmore Road. The cottage on the left still exists, although now substantially altered.

Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner. The premises have since been converted into a private house.

Because of the flat roads, bicycles were in abundance both on the streets and greens, so much so that they caused problems for pedestrians.

Napoleonic prisoners-of-war planted an avenue of elm trees here, which survived until the devastation of 20th-century road widening.

The massive rocks were taken down Cowpasture Road to stone breaking yards around Ash Grove.

Great swathes of countryside were cut through to make roads and roundabouts.