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Now separated from the city by the inner ring road, this vast church was not built as a cathedral; it only became one in 1976. It was built for the Catholic 15th Duke of Norfolk between 1884 and 1910.

Below Church Hill and the main street, Victoria Road provides us with our first glimpse of the sea and of the Moot Hall.

Note the telegraph poles alongside the A595 road (left). The Kirkby slate quarries are only a few hundred metres behind Anna's Croft, the field where this picture was taken.

Now separated from the city by the inner ring road, this vast church was not built as a cathedral; it only became one in 1976. It was built for the Catholic 15th Duke of Norfolk between 1884 and 1910.

Though the main roads are rather too busy for horseriding these days, the many country lanes, bridleways and ridge paths make this method of transport an excellent way to explore the county and escape

Rectory Road was extensively redeveloped in the 1970s, and many of its small shops were closed.

This view of the Buckden mills is taken from the River Ouse beside some pollarded willows; it shows the walkway beside the road that was used when the river was in flood.

A cyclist gingerly crosses Edgware Road as Watling Avenue drops away eastwards towards Mill Hill.

Where now heavy traffic pours both ways along this road, children played in the street early this century.

Union Street, famous to sailors throughout the world, is the high road from Devonport to Plymouth.

This view is from by the station approach and is little changed, although the pavements and road are more formalised.

This view shows The Promenade, or the New Wharf Road as it was also known, before railings and pavements were added.

The Harrow stands on the road to North Ockendon.

People are not too busy to stand in the road for a gossip. The men on the left are looking at a dog, probably a young lurcher.

As we turn down Higgs Lane, this is what we would see looking back towards the main road.

Note the stone base of the road sign on the left.

The main road falls away to cross the River Swift and goes on to Rugby. The two towns are the places where the jet-age began: Sir Frank Whittle was designing and testing in the area from 1937.

This more panoramic view of the tor shows the winding main road, now the A6, which passes beside the river and beneath the rocks.

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

Children idly watch the photographer - and each other - from either side of the road, and wagons stand under one of the arches in Kemp and Sons' yard.

The ponds lie across the road from New Pond Farm, where today there is a nature reserve. Note the array of hats among the spectators on the left.

At the signpost beyond, marking the junction of the High Street with the Portsmouth Road, and behind the trees, stood a lodge to Frimley Park, since demolished.

Great Totham Garage is still to be found behind the shop in Maldon Road.

It is situated at a crossroads, with Winchester Road on the left and Church Lane on the right. The corners are awkward to negotiate in modern vehicles.