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The façade of Ye Olde Red Lion pub in Park Road had undergone some minor changes shortly before this photograph was taken, with the removal of two decorative signboards above the main doorway and the replacement

The road repairs next to the crossing are unusual, as nearly all the roads in these photographs seem to be in excellent condition.

The Visitation Convent in Pymore Road, opposite the junction with Coneygar Road, is shown here from the potato patch behind it.

The road repairs next to the crossing are unusual, as nearly all the roads in these photographs seem to be in excellent condition.

The road has also been re-aligned, and the pub is now further away from the road.

The newer part of Langho, about a mile distant, has developed since the road to Clitheroe from Blackburn was made.

All Saints' Church looks out over the marshes by Church Farm, and stands at the west gates to the castle (not now the public entrance, which is from the Wartling Road).

Behind the tearoom, the village shop, now closed, was once an inn with stables and yard running back from the road.

The college later moved into a new building on Oxford Road which had been designed by Alfred Waterhouse, winner of the competition to design Manchester Town Hall.

Road improvements have left it just off the main road today.

We are looking down towards the Market and the Town Hall, with the Lloyds Bank building beyond the Savoy Cafe (right) - Lloyds Bank moved to Whalley Road in 1962.

There are roads along each bank and houses face the river, giving it a slightly Dutch feel. Indeed, there are some fine Georgian houses, particularly on the east side near the good parish church.

Even in the mid-fifties, Edenbridge retained some of its atmosphere as a small agricultural town, strung out along the Roman road which reached out across the Weald from Lewes to London.

The Avenue leads round to Normanby Road, which recalls the landowners of the nearby Normanby Hall and Estate.

We are looking towards the corner of Island Road, with Brook and Williams's printers and bookbinder's shop and works on the right; this block of shops later became one of the first department stores in

Monton Green is also the name of the road in our photograph.

This quaint combined signpost and sheltered seat stands at the junction with The Street, Kings Road and Cranleigh Road. It is a 1920s delight, and reminiscent of a market cross in miniature.

Across the road - and stretching down to the bridge - were two inns fused together, the Lion and the Hart; and on the far corner of Springfield Road - where Next now is - was the Crown.

Earlier development shows in this view looking north-east up the Common with, to the right of the oak, nos 3 and 7 New Road, a road laid out a few years earlier.

This view looking towards town captures well the flavour of interwar development along the Tring Road itself.

100 acres was considered enough for a park, and the rest was made available for what was to become Park Road with North and South Parades.

This view of Birkenhead Road was taken very early in the wartime decade - the parked vehicles lack the white painted edges to the front and rear wings, and none of the windows in the houses

This aerial shot shows the High Street; it is a wonderful illustration of a common style of urban development, with narrow medieval burgage plots running back at right angles from the road.

This aerial shot shows the High Street; it is a wonderful illustration of a common style of urban development, with narrow medieval burgage plots running back at right angles from the road.