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Here, the Weir Hotel is offering 'Luncheons—Hovis' to the drivers of passing Fords, Austins and Jowett Javelins.

This charming photograph shows two lads and a girl pulling a handcart carrying metal milk churns over the ford across the beck in Redmire, a village situated in mid Wensleydale.

It comes off Hursley Road, and descends to a stream crossed by a ford where the water might be so deep that food suppliers could not get across.

The wash itself—near Laindonponds—was where a tributary of the Crouch forded the road.

The bridge, built in 1244 on the site of the ford from which the town takes its name, would still have been carrying a lot of horse traffic in 1907.

This is a scene that might have been familiar to Worcestershire's earliest residents, for Wyre Piddle's church was built on the site of a prehistoric burial ground.

A Ford Cortina and a Vauxhall, together with a Morris delivery van can be seen on the road.

Whatstandwell gets its strange name from Walter Stonewell, a 14th-century resident, whose house was next to the former ford which crossed the river here.

Here we see a vanished scene.Two draught horses are led over the old bridge by the ford on the river Chelmer.The photographer appears to have left his car parked up the road on the left and walked

The original crossing here was a ford, probably used since Bronze Age times. The present bridge bears a plaque inscribed 'County Bridge 1792'.

This long-gone railway (1903 - February 1955) and its demolished viaduct, played an important part in the preparations for D Day, bringing material and troops to their embarkation

The motor car is well provided for in this picture, which looks down the High Street to the Abbey gateway. On the right are the Ford Service Depot and Pratt's Petrol.

Beyond the hump-backed 15th-century bridge over the River Darent, and the adjoining ford, is a picturesque Tudor house and a line of cottages looking out onto the grassy banks.

The name Clatford means 'ford where burdock grew'. 30 years before this picture was taken, the first locally manufactured traction engine trundled through the village on its way to the Royal Agricultural

Three mallard ducks purposefully traverse the shallow ford across this little stream which flows on to join the River Thames.

Worcester has always had a very close relationship with the River Severn, from early times when the first community grew up around an ancient ford.

This is a quintessentially mid 1960s scene: a Ford Anglia, a Mary Quant haircut, a cigarette machine.

The name 'Clatford' means 'ford where burdock grew.' It was on Goodworth Clatford that a flying bomb landed, destroying the old Royal Oak, the school, the smithy and a row of cottages.

A father and his son seem to be skimming stones in the right foreground on the beach, which probably marks the spot where the 'full ford' of the village's name once existed.

Adjacent to the former King's Mill, the lane leads via the Green to the ford of the River Whitewater. From there a footpath leads to Odiham Castle.

To the north-west of the New Forest is the peaceful little town of Fordingbridge, named after the ancient ford and medieval bridge which facilitate a passage across the River Avon at this point.

This is a quintessentially mid 1960s scene: a Ford Anglia, a Mary Quant haircut, a cigarette machine.

The first bridge was built in 1806, but it collapsed in 1881 and travellers had to resort to the original ford until the present structure was opened two years later.

Pontrhydfendigaid means 'bridge of the blessed ford', and this is that bridge. By it is the village shop.