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Downderry village is alongside the coast road in the distance.

The scene recorded in this photograph is impossible to find today, so greatly has Hagley Road changed.

This was an important coaching route in the 18th and 19th centuries, part of the London to Holyhead road, which was improved by Thomas Telford in 1816.

On the road to Market Harborough, Desborough is a small town with various ironstone cottages and inns.

The old black and white signpost points to nearby Watling Street, one of Britain's most famous Roman roads and now the A5.

Close by is Magdalen College, the first building of any size and importance you pass on entering the city by the old London road.

This view looks north along Midland Road, its name deriving from the old railway station. The terraces and villas shown are all intact today.

The Plough pub, now a free house, can be found on the Warwick Road.

Opposite Gray's Inn Road is Staple Inn. It was once the meeting place for wool merchants with a custom house where wool dues were collected.

The journey took over thirty hours, and was an acceptable alternative to being shaken and bounced along the Great North Road in a mail-coach.

We are looking along the gently curving road towards Hythe. On the left are two small shops owned by Mr Bushell and Mr Ruddock and, in the distance, the Seaview Hotel.

The telephone box in front of the newsagents has moved across the road to behind the camera.

Everyone is posing for the camera right through the town centre, and in the road too. Note the elderly bearded gentleman on the left, and the shopkeeper in his apron on the right.

Another view down Nuxley Road taken a little later in the 1950s.

It is hard to believe that the arched bridge, built in 1797 by John Carr of York, used to carry all the main Great North road traffic.

Just five miles south of Huddersfield on the road to Wakefield, Kirkburton in the 19th century was just as polluted by smoke as its near neighbours.

The sign to the left of the picture advertises 'Cycles for Hire' - why anyone would want to ride up the Burway I do not know - it is the steepest road in the county.

Cyclists pedal along in comparative safety, and a lady is happy to stand in the middle of the road and ask a policeman for directions.

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.

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile- hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

The house is called Brook House; there is an inscription above the crest over the porch (just to the right of the road sign) that dates the building to 1574.

The bridge carries the Padiham road over Sabden Brook into the village.

When this view was taken, the road was the A30 to the west country and already notorious for delays during the summer.

The shops which lined the steep road down to the pier were demolished shortly after for being 'unhygienic and ugly'.They sold all manner of seaside items from postcards, buckets and spades, paddling