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Long queues of traffic build up here as cars approach the traffic lights at the junction further down the road, roughly at the point where the cart can be seen on the right.

It remains in Dallas Road today as St Christopher's Roman Catholic Church.

The tallest building across the road was M Robinson's Coliseum Department Store, now Debenhams. Beyond it is the former Globe Theatre, and Maxwell's Corner Shop stands in the centre distance.

The main A361 Taunton road loops through the village, with the church in the back lane. This view looks south-west along the A361.

A wax bleaching and candle making factory was in operation on Waldegrave Road, which provided further jobs.

Lee Lane (left) at its junction with Dorchester Road, has a stone commemorating the escape of King Charles II after being defeated at the Battle of Worcester.

Tea could be had next door to Barclay's Bank or in the Copper Kettle across the road, by Holmes & Sons, printers of the Andover Advertiser.

The business must have recently changed hands, because in the 1906 directory it was the premises of Charles Riley, and Kennerley's shop was at 112 and 114 Ashley Road.

Roads pass by leading to Dunsop Bridge and Slaidburn. The young John Bright attended school here to improve his knowledge and physique.

Thirsk has always been an important stopping place on the old Great North Road, and the Golden Fleece Inn, on the extreme right of the picture, was a coaching inn where horses were changed.

The speed regulation signs do little to enhance an otherwise idyllic scene on the A50 Leicester-Coalville (Bradgate) Road, looking across to All Saints' Church, standing adjacent to the entrance to

In this photograph the main road looks quiet, but traffic between Leicester and Loughborough would, in a few short years, build to a crescendo through the narrow streets.

Its name derives from the 'Gait-House', which was built by the Murrays in the 17th century, the 'gait' being the road from Dumfries to Creetown.

The church of St Mary on the north side of the road opposite the Abbey has traces of its Norman origins; it is mostly Early English and Decorated Gothic, but was heavily restored by the Victorians.

The slip road on the left-hand side leads through to a grid-work of streets of Victorian houses, presumably built to house the miners who came to live in the area during the mining boom of

The Arcade was located just off the Market Place in Blackfriar's Road, where the Empire Cinema is now. Many retailers with shops elsewhere in the town would also have a stall on market day.

The Chandos Arms and the shops beyond are now 1970s offices, and on the right side of the road is Hampden House, a stylish but incongruous office block with shops on the ground floor.

Thirsk has always been an important stopping place on the old Great North Road, and the Golden Fleece Inn, on the extreme right of the picture, was a coaching inn where horses were changed.

Tourists are not the tidiest of our species, but the road sweeper (middle distance, centre) is doing a great job.

The building in front of that was the Methodist Church from 1824 until they moved to their new building in Lodge Road in 1974.

A little north of Horam, on the Heathfield road and up Steelyards Hill, stands Stillyans, an oasthouse converted into a house.

The Lloyds TSB bank (right) in Bedford Park style of 1879 promised greater things than its dismal surroundings in the High Road.

We are looking south down the High Street, which runs from London Road towards the railway station. Crawley Hill is in the distance, covered in more spacious suburbs.

A mile or so west of Effingham, the Guildford road cranks past a medieval fairy-tale castle.