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This is the main road through what was once the home of the Welsh iron industry. The first forge is reputed to have been working in 1425, with the first ironworks following in 1577.

The square, originally Cross Bank, was bypassed in 1810 on its eastern side by the A6 Market Harborough to Leicester road. A

The original entrance to the college was intended to be from Ormerod Road, as the impressive doorway indicates.

A couple of miles north-east of Ticehurst, Flimwell is a small village bisected by the London to Hastings road, now the A21, which crosses the foreground of this view.

This photograph was taken from outside the Market Hall looking down Blackburn Road towards its junction with Abbey Street.

A loop from the Coltishall to Wroxham road can take you down to the delightful small village of Belaugh.

The newspaper office on the left and the road running to the right of it have gone; in their place is a modern shopping complex.

This old coaching town on the London to Brighton road had the misfortune to be designated a New Town in 1947. Now swamped by housing estates, the High Street was mainly pedestrianised.

This picture shows the old road bridge, which was washed away in disastrous floods in the 1920s; the railway bridge is to its left.

Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary was rebuilt in 1849, with a timber bell turret and a shingled spire.THis photograph shows the old coaching inn on the Emsworth to Harting road

The bridge in our photograph is the Greyhound Road Bridge; it replaced the very first bridge, the medieval Old Bridge, which led directly to Bridge Hill and China Lane, which was only 8ft wide.

Car drivers using the shop, post box or phone (on the left) must have caused an obstruction on this narrow part of the main road, and since this photograph was taken, the house on the right was demolished

On the stony Stanton Road, Domesday Scepecote (meaning 'shelter for sheep') was home to the powerful Bassett family.

The road has not changed, and the route into the Market Place is still the same; however, as in most of these photographs, the telegraph poles have long since gone.

This is still Main Road.

Revesby is an estate village, and the Estate Office on is the nearby A153 main road. The village was laid out in the 1850s around a huge green.

There has been change here, with development on both sides of the road, though the white building in the centre and the terrace of houses remain.

Best Outfitters are in the three-storey building, beyond which the Lily Hotel projects towards the road, with Colmer's Hill being the distinctive hilltop (centre).

This view looks north along Woodcote Road towards the railway bridge. The station is on the left, but is concealed by the distant shops.

Parked on the road further up the street is a Mini estate, which was first sold in 1960.

Whitehall is on the extreme left of this photograph, taken at this junction of Park Lane and The Broadway; the widening of the Malden Road has yet to take place.

Boys used to arrive on the railway located down Old Station Road behind the photographer. The village shop seen here dates from 1856.

This long and irregular village stands on either side of a switchback rise in the otherwise dead-straight Roman road that comprises this section of the A229.

Wilfrid Frost lived at Glyn in Park Road.