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One Sunday in 1945 a tremendous explosion rocked the village, and a ball of flames erupted from behind the trees on Warwick Road. A

An air of tranquillity pervades this pretty scene with its unmetalled road, and it could almost be a photograph of modern Totternhoe.

In this photograph, the road appears to sweep straight into the west door. A cab driver and his horse wait patiently in the shade for their next fare.

East Cliff towers above Rock-a-Nore Road here, with fishermen's sheds and stores on the left.

This little village stands on the edge of a cove in the chalk cliffs of South Foreland, where the road drops steeply down to St Margaret's Bay; it clusters around an impressive Norman church, built around

The London to Hastings road passed through this section of the town, and with the coming of motor vehicles this street became a traffic bottleneck.

Feock is on a peninsula at the head of the Carrick Roads on the Fal, and without a car the bus would be the only way to get to Truro.

Strete's main road is seldom now as peaceful and car-free as it was in the 1920s.

This quiet road is built over an earlier byway bordering the extensive area of common land that was enclosed, drained and extensively farmed from the 17th century.

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

Note the rough road surface, which had not yet been modernised with tarmacadam.

Now it is connected to the mainland by road. The village sits on high ground, and unlike much of the parish which sits on more marshy land, is protected from flooding by embankments.

A few miles from Dunstable, through the Downs, and nowadays part of the commuter belt, Castle Hill road links the three ends of Totternhoe, Church, Middle and Lower.

The parked vehicles on the near side of the road are taxis awaiting hire at the rank, whilst those opposite, including a motorbike and sidecar, are clearly untroubled by any form of contemporary parking

A Royal Mail coach is outside the First and Last Inn, which is appropriately named, as this road leads out towards the Land's End.

This is now the busy A329, and the B4009 Newbury road is between the Bull at Streatley pub on the left, where the Three Men in a Boat lunched, and the Georgian Elm House beyond.

The other Leeds theatres were The Royal in Land's Lane, The Queen's in Meadow Road and the Empire Palace in Briggate.

Christchurch Park was laid out as a road in 1888, converting a track through fields into a prosperous residential area.

On the right, the house dated 1882 still stands at the corner of East Road, part of the High Town developments of the 1870s onwards.

The coffee merchant E W Coleman's van is parked outside his shop (centre); beside its window is an LNER train timetable - Station Road is off to the left.

In the centre is a fish and chip saloon; to its right is the narrow wynd called The Bar, and on the railings is an advertisement for wet fish on sale in the basement of No 1 New Road.

The road is named after the Tontine Hotel, which was built in 1783 to accommodate visitors coming to see the new bridge.

He also built roads and a chapel, so that when later there was severe unrest amongst mill workers in nearby towns, he remained highly respected by his own workers.

He also built roads and a chapel, so that when later there was severe unrest amongst mill workers in nearby towns, he remained highly respected by his own workers.