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The post office on the left is now a house; the post office has moved across the road into Read the tobacconist's next to the Gedling Wine Stores on the corner of Waverley Avenue – this shop is now

Newark enjoyed great prosperity in the 18th century through industrial growth and through its status as a coaching town on the Great North Road.

Long Row leads westwards uphill into Chapel Bar, now truncated by the Maid Marian Way roundabout junction with Derby Road.

With five roads feeding into it, this famous junction (close to the access to the Queensway Tunnel under the River Mersey) is one of the busiest in the region.

The Eclipse pub on the right, built in typical Surrey 1930s road-house vernacular, is now a Caffe Uno.

East from Claygate and across the Hogsmill river valley, the route reaches Ewell, now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road.

North-east of the village and north of the A415 Abingdon Road is a large complex of austere Gothic- style buildings. This is now the European School, and not much softened with age.

This very early postcard view of the Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.The traffic-free minor road meanders

The 1950s and 1960s were ideal decades for taking to the quiet country roads and villages to enjoy the exhilaration of motor-car driving.

Further down, towards Bancroft and Nightingale Road, the tannery and other industrial works poured their waste into the river. Only the lavender works may have offset the obnoxious smell of the Hiz!

Hall in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee brought applause in 1897, when the council had the opportunity to purchase the land and remove the shop which was an obstruction in the road

Every possible mode of transport can be seen at the junction on the A47 main road to Yarmouth from Norwich.

Bowling's the ironmongers moved to Grove Road in the 1920s, and their shop became a branch of the Midland Bank. This has since been converted to a pub called 'The Old Bank'.

This view is at the junction of Woodside and Rickmansworth Roads and looks south-west towards Oakfield Corner.

Before the by-pass this was the main road through the town; it is now pedestrianised.

This is the centre of Milford, with the road to Keyhaven and the coast on the right by the Midland Bank.

But the two lines of vehicles waiting for the traffic lights to change on this stretch of the A232 linking Cheam to Sutton and Croydon give a foretaste of the steadily increasing road usage in decades

This lovely thatched, half-timbered inn has stood on this site, alongside the connecting road from Birkenhead to Neston, since 1611.

Like W164301 (page 43), this was taken from Leasowe Road, but from the opposite corner some fifty-five years later.

Beyond, in the centre of the picture, is the Totnes Road development of 1890, showing the movement away from detached villas to semi-detached houses.

The modern expansion of Groby as a Leicester suburb is to be glimpsed as the main road swings to the right towards Coalville.

The rest of the village follows the high road above the River Ribble.

The inner relief road, the John Adams Way, has made a tremendous difference to this scene, and only the River Witham is the same.

The Crown Inn and Restaurant (the white building to the left of the road) is still there, as are the other houses. This photograph looks towards Market Rasen.