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Here we see another view of the long, straggling street with its delightful half-timbered cottages and the brick Baptist Chapel on the opposite side of the road.

The small chippings were used for metalling roads.

Note too the bicycle parked on the other side of the road, with the pedal set back on the kerb so it can act as a stand.

This road was cut in half when a new by-pass was built round the town. This, the lower half, has changed somewhat, but mainly only in detail.

This cutler and locksmith has an establised stall in the market in the Whitechapel Road. He is a general jobber, able to sharpen knives and tools, re-set saws, repair locks and cut replacement keys.

The road has not been improved very much today.

Many of Wakefield's 118 pubs and hotels were along this central road through the city. At the lower end is the Kirkgate railway station, which replaced an earlier station built in 1840.

This is the headquarters of British Rail Eastern Region, situated in Station Road. When this photograph was taken, the building had just been completed.

One of the principal roads from the south into the Forest of Rossendale was from Bury to Clitheroe, the route skirting the edge of Holcombe Hill and Haslingden.

Situated near to the junction of two Roman roads and several prehistoric trackways, the Iron Age hillfort of Badbury Rings dominates the surrounding downland.

This picture of the Square shows the Crown Hotel, an old coaching house, forced to offer every attraction from livery to billiards, as the road network suffered during the dominant days of the railway

Dorchester Road 1906 Maiden Newton makes a good centre for exploring the Dorset downs. Many visitors walk up to the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon.

The traffic-free minor road meanders south between drystone walls through the dale, towards Grange and Rosthwaite.

The small market town of Belford was once a coaching stop for travellers on the Great North Road.

Hall of 1818, but were themselves replaced in 1934 by this neo-Georgian pile on Coton Road.

Thousands of Cheltenham people entered the world at St Paul's maternity hospital in Swindon Road, which was founded in 1948.

Still a mixture of residential and commercial properties, Fleet Road is nonetheless well on the way to becoming Fleet's principle shopping street.

The arrow-straight course of Queen's Avenue can be seen here looking north towards its eventual junction with Lynchford Road in North Camp.

New roads and paths were constructed when this private garden became a public park. The park is well timbered with established trees that have taken a lifetime to grow.

Christchurch Road, seen here as it enters Boscombe, must be one of the longest streets in England, as it runs the full distance between Bournemouth and Christchurch.

Seen on countless calendars, this view of Derwent Water from Ashness Bridge, on the narrow road up to Watendlath, is always popular. Skiddaw fills the backdrop.

This view towards the Little Orme is now almost completely covered with housing developments, so we can dwell on this rustic scene and imagine the odd visitor wandering along the road, or members of

The trams of the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co linked Clifton to the city by way of Hotwells Road.

The building, designed by Sir Ernest George and Albert B Yeates, opened in 1912 in Marylebone Road. Inside is the Duke's Hall for concerts and fifty teaching rooms.