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A motorcyclist loads his sidecar outside the County Hotel, renamed from the London Hotel.

Still Walsworth Road, still 1901, but a little closer to the station. The wall on the right was built from slag and clinker from local foundries.

Thirsk is perhaps best known today for its racecourse, where the first races were held in 1855, but it was formerly an important staging post on the Great North Road between London and Edinburgh.

Here we see the same road as the one shown in B126011, but from the opposite direction. In most cases, doors open straight onto the street. Little traffic can be seen.

In the early 1900s the road was widened and the market house and several buildings in the same row were built to the designs of W J Tamlyn.

A high-level road bridge eventually replaced it.

Now on the main road to the North Sea seaside resorts from Canterbury, Sturry was, along with Canterbury itself, bombed heavily during the Second World War. Much rebuilding has occurred since.

The road islands and street furniture have also moved and been changed. Buses run across the recently redundant tram lines.

At the opposite end, the trees mark the old burial ground beyond the road junction.

Old Sarum, an Iron Age fort, a junction for four Roman roads, a cathedral town and the original Salisbury, reveals its past with this display of excavated artefacts.

The road to the main buildings and Poole can be seen running up from the beach by the ice cream hut. Today both the ice cream hut and the gorse on the beach have disappeared.

The 'proper' housing lines the Braunton to Croyde road, and the sea (behind the camera) is a noted surfing area.

The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.

On the extreme left is a wall supporting the cliffside road out to Hannafore, 'a developing residential estate facing the open sea.'

A high-level road bridge eventually replaced it.

Late in Victorian times the road was widened, and the tree became a prominent roadside landmark. The stump was finally removed in 1921.

His famous painting 'The Boyhood of Raleigh' features the sea wall across the road from where Millais stayed.

This is a peaceful village scene, with an inn on the far right of the wide road. Visitors come here to see the lovely 15th-century church of St Leonard.

The steamer 'Daisy' calls at Lambeth Pier, which is built on to the new riverside Lambeth Palace Road. Behind is Lambeth Palace, with St Mary's Church to the right.

This is now a major (and very much busier) road junction for routes between Chester and Manchester and also between Warrington and the south.

Clydach is a small village on the road from Brecon to Swansea. The area has been mined for coal for at least 300 years.

Once this was a water splash, then a footbridge and now a modern bridge has been built with a wider road and footpath. The stone houses beyond cluster together as the lane goes uphill.

It stands in extensive grounds just off Easemore Road, an easy walk from several Redditch neighbourhoods and from the bus and train stations. A Sixth Form Centre shares the same site.

Blackburn Road has been pedestrianised, enabling improved street furniture and planting.