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On the B1368 road a mile or so north of Braughing stands the small community of Hay Street.

Here we approach East Ham's town centre along the busy North Circular Road, which seems in places merely a casual linkage of suburban roads.

All had picturesque names, for instance 'Jasmine', 'Magnolia', and 'Elizabeth', named after my sister who was killed in a road crash.

It was a co-educational school until the Girls' County School was built further down Buttrills Road.

The railway originally ended at Terminus Place (which is hardly surprising), and housing was laid out along the old lane onto the common: this became Western Road, with Summer Heath Road a

The new Wesleyan Church, seen here from Church Road (now St Nicholas Way), was a sumptuous and unusual building.

New Road was part of an old turnpike road, where a wagon drawn by five horses was charged 1/6d.

This little road, climbing steeply from Ambleside through stark countryside to join the main Windermere to Ullswater road at the top of the Kirkstone Pass, has long been known as 'The Struggle'.

Turning into Dovecote Road we wind half a mile east to the corner of Mill Road to finish this chapter on a literary note.

Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.

In Victorian and Edwardian times, Queen's Road was home to a number of institutions.

Warrington did once have a horsemarket, but it was further down the road, along Winwick Street outside Central Station.

This picture clearly shows the split- level look of the Walk, as it was known until Edwardian times, with the Cart Road being the lower terrace from Cobb Gate to the sands beside the

Note the post box outside Holton Road Post Office (now Greggs) to the right.

North of Westham Road bridge, at the northern end of the Backwater, it carried its last passengers in a special service on 29 April 1959 when Queen Elizabeth II crossed in the royal train.

This view looks west along the main road through Castor towards Ailsworth. Both villages feature many delightful stone and timber houses.

This road is still open to Westgate Street and has two-way traffic. The balconies on the hospital were added in 1908.

School buildings also made their appearance to the west of the central area: the Collegiate School on Ecclesall Road, built in a number of stages between 1835 and 1911, and the Wesley College (

The park gates were on Pytchley Road.

A view from the Belmont Road area, revealing in more detail the sheer magnificence of the Grand Hotel. The four cupolas are clearly visible.

Note the soldiers marching down the road side by side in the centre of the photograph, just to the right of Craster's corner shop.

The High Street used to be the main Norwich to London road. Here is a foretaste of the traffic problems that were to come.

Half way between London and Edinburgh on the busy Great North Road, Ferrybridge was a hub, with smaller roads branching off into West Yorkshire.

Disciplined soldiers stand to attention on the enclosed parade ground of the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry barracks, off the Lostwithiel Road.