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Ten years later it would be a different story, and special parking provisions would have to be made to accommodate the huge amount of road traffic.

The view is northwards from Sidmouth Road.

The army barracks was based not far away, just off Kings Road.

Along the Marlow Road at the west end of Kidwell's Park is the former Technical School, dated 1895.

This is the frantically busy A330 and the wall on the right, to Holyport Lodge, has been moved back for road widening.

In Church Road stands the 1869 Gothic-style church of St Mary, with monuments of past Heskeths brought from earlier churches.

Boats travelling down the Thames estuary from London were met by stagecoaches here, and their passengers were transported onward by road to Dover.

These cottages stand in Watery Lane, between Church Road and the Cross and the track to Harry Warren House on the clifftop - the track becomes the coastal footpath to Old Harry Rocks.

This view shows Middle Street and Village Road, between the flagstone-topped terraces of high raised pavements, looking towards the 1863-built spire of Holy Trinity parish church in the northern

A long, straight road connected the two towns. It was probably a pre- Roman trackway.

These have included the enlargement of the Tesco store near the bypass, the reconstruction of the road bridge over Hen Brook in St Mary's Street, and a large new housing complex and marina on

London Road was altered in the 1930s when Fortescue House, where Regal House stands today, was pulled down.

On the right in Beckford Road is the public library and the Maritime Museum. The Museum displays paintings, logbooks, model ships, and yacht designs by Uffa Fox, and is a sailor's haven.

Built at the bottom of Threadneedle Street, it was given a new service road - Market Road - that cut through the open land between the Corn Exchange and the railway station.

In this photograph we head north-east out of Market Square along Cambridge Street, once known as Bakers Lane, a road that haas seen much change since the 1950s.

With the turret of the Chine Hotel, which served as a landmark for Channel shipping, prominent in the back- ground, the elegant row of Victorian houses along Undercliffe Road bears tribute to the enduring

Children wait outside the shop, perhaps for a school bus, while a thatcher is working on a cottage roof, his ladder supported half way into the road – a dangerous situation with today's busy traffic.

This village is fortunate to have a fine Norman-style church in a splendid setting alongside the main road.

The Greedon Estate is situated on the north west side of the Seagrave Road. This is a particularly uninspiring view, but again it is a view so typical of peripheral village estates.

The traffic signals at the Queen's Road/King Street junction were installed in 1954. Plenty of people are doing their morning shopping here before supermarkets became universal.

Henry Burnaby Greene, Rector, diverted the road around a pseudo-Saxon cross by the rectory gate. The lady living opposite retaliated by turning her huse into an inn and calling it the Green Man.

The lad may be returning from the castle, which could be approached on this road at that time. The four houses on the right, built in 1817, are now private residences.

Needham, on the main road from Ipswich to Stowmarket, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.

After crossing the ancient causeway known as the King's Highway (which runs from Belsars Hill at Willingham to Aldreth), we reach the green at Haddenham and the road to Ely.