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This watery way running through the village is where the stream was diverted to run along the road specifically to wash the wheels of carts and wagons and the feet of the horses.

The town was changing, and the old order was changing with it. 45 new residential roads were added to the street map in the 1920s.

The High Street becomes Freebrough Road and leads out on to the

At the western end of Westgate, we see very clearly how the trees planted at either side of the road created a very attractive avenue effect when entering the town in this direction.

From Reeds Hill this view towards the Crowthorne Road shows, on the left, buildings that were part of the Churchill House complex.

The footpaths beside the road have not yet developed into raised paths with kerb stones, but are at least demarcated by a line of grass.

Another view of Skelton taken from 'the hills', showing the distinctive white façade of the Methodist Church on Green Road.

Wonderful as this view is, admiration is tempered by the knowledge that the road leading to the south transept was created by the demolition in the 1830s of the mainly 12th-century monastic dormitory and

Christ Church is seen here from Station Road, at the time when the vicar was the Reverend E M B Southwell. The church was built in 1869 at a cost of £2,900 and replaced an earlier church.

This hamlet on the Chesterfield Road out of Darley Dale is known as Two Dales; the name probably comes from the twin valleys of Hall Dale and Sydnope Dale, which run on either side of the

Too many tourists see Sidford only as a very busy road junction on their way to Sidmouth - a great pity, for despite its constant flow of traffic, Sidford has some delightful buildings and a rather

Elements of this small historic coaching town still remain, including the well-restored George Hotel and its inn sign on gallows spanning the now mainly pedestrianised road.

Note that both road and footpath surfaces leave much to be desired.

Just one motor car heads down through the village for Liskeard along a road that is now the extremely busy A38. Note the telephone poles laden with many wires, a sight no longer seen today.

Notice the very decorative lamp post on the right-hand side of the road in the photograph below.

The road curves attractively to the bowed end of the 18th-century Town Hall. The gilded swan now faces to the left.

There is much more activity, with horse- drawn carriages and children playing in the wide road.

Bracknell grew up from the inns on the road between Ascot Heath and Reading, once a popular haunt of highwaymen who lay in waiting for their quarry among the trees of the old Windsor Forest

Worston once stood astride the main A59 road, but now it is happy to be a quiet backwater in the shadow of Pendle. This sleepy scene is typical of the lovely villages in the area.

Broad Street is the town's most fashionable shopping street, though the busy traffic of today prevents dogs lying down in the road!

Picket Post is a tiny hamlet on the high road between Ringwood and the New Forest. It is a convenient place to stop for tea, sit on a bench and watch the world go by.

The photographer moved back down the road and caught the colonnade of shops, one of Hawkhurst's best known features; this is an early 19th-century shopping arcade with weatherboarded houses and cast-iron

Taken some fifty years after photograph No 61493, this view looks along Trumpington Street in the opposite direction, with Corpus Christi on the right hand side of the road, and King's in the distance

This is the corner of St Anne's Road West and Garden Street (right) before it was fully surfaced.