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fountain remained in its original position until March 1971, by which time it was no longer providing drinking water; it was moved to a small island at the junction of Hanger Hill and Prince's Road

Among them were the Nightingalls of South Hatch in Burgh Heath Road, another father-and-son team; Tom Walls the actor, who won the 1932 Derby with his April the Fifth; and George and Bessie Duller

Opposite is a parade of shops and an office block which still houses Lloyds Bank, but the road now has a complex set of traffic junctions.

the centre opened, some two-thirds of the businesses in the town were Epsom-owned; now it is about half, and these are at the periphery of the main shopping areas in South Street, Waterloo Road

You can see another one re-erected at the Chiltern Open Air Museum - this is James Elliott's factory, built in Desborough Road in 1887.

South-east expansion will certainly put pressure on the M1, and on local roads like the A505 and the rat run through Houghton Regis.

For most of its life the region between Broad Eye and the North Gate seems to have been called Dottell Prick.

For the same reason, it is unlikely that drivers will ever again enjoy the same freedom to park at the side of the road as those in our picture.

The original carriage driveway of the house preceded the 'new' Westgate Road, shown in the foreground here, which was laid out to connect the Victorian streets of Reid Terrace, Gill Street and

Pilton is a large but quite dispersed village beside the Glastonbury to Shepton Mallet road, and we are now some six miles from the former.

Infants' classes were later added to the school, and in 1874 a new school for boys was built in Aughton Street, adjoining what is now Park Road.

The procession of floats meant that some of the main streets (particularly the Broadway and South Road) were closed to other traffic for the duration of the festivities.

Harry and Frank Roll built up Hookfield, where Basil Braithwaite had held his garden parties, and Ron and John Harwood developed ten roads in the old grounds of Woodcote House.

Their old, moated manor house became a farm; a few cottages and a blacksmith's shop remained around the junction of Horton Lane and Long Grove Road with a more substantial building at West Park farmhouse

The roads were kept in a good state of repair, enabling high speeds to be maintained by the best of coaches.

The horse-drawn trams were a long-established feature of the city, and the system was still being extended up the Cregagh and Anderstown Roads.

Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road. A

Road tolls had been set up during the previous century to contribute to its upkeep.

St Andrew's, Clifton Road, was the last parish church to be built in pre-war Worthing. It was possibly also the most controversial, for it marked the beginning of Anglo-Catholicism in the town.

Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road. A

Older residents still refer to the Castle Street and Kings Road campuses as the Boys' and Girls' Schools.

And fair enough - the road signs to Chelmsford do not shout 'Historic Cathedral City' - they say things like 'County town since 1250', or 'The birthplace of radio'.

residents' concerns, it must vote down aggressive development proposals which create large numbers of new houses encroaching on open land and generating substantial additional traffic on local roads

A large number of the remaining out-of-work men were employed on special projects; these included the making of a new road following the coast to link Ulverston and Barrow, and the construction of