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carriage with a liveried coachman make their way along George Street past the imposing façade of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, on the left, and the Brooklyn Cycle Depot across the unsurfaced road. A

Horbury's Grammar School was in Highfield Road, where older pupils were provided with a smoking room.

The more recent road sign was no doubt meant to ensure free access to the church for weddings and funerals.

It was essentially a wool town, and its great market was held in the wide stretch of road we see here.

And this one, the Heol Maengwyn, also carries the main A489 road from the east. The street came to life, and still does, on Wednesday market day.

The King William IV public house, dating from 1862, is the first in a row of noteworthy buildings in Vantorts Road.

The thatch has been removed from one of the cottages and the little wicket gate next to the road has been removed for safety reasons. You can still see the line of the gate in the brickwork.

Chutes descend from Quay Road in front of the terraced houses for loading china clay. On the extreme right is a disused limekiln with two arches.

As it lies outside the ring road it may yet escape engulfment, though many residents are unhappy at the expansion of nearby Coventry Airport, from which thomsonfly.com now operates low-cost

The cliffs below the road in the foreground were the scene in 1952 of two notorious murders.

Gear's Garage, above the Queen's Armes Hotel, was the major motor engineers for this section of what became the strategic A35 Folkestone to Honiton trunk road.

The Romans mined Droitwich salt on a large scale, and this is the road they built running east from Droitwich through Feckenham to Alcester.

Warlingham School is seen from Westhall Road one hundred years ago. It was opened in 1874 with 75 pupils, some of whom came from Whyteleafe.

The retaining wall along Torquay Road was the 1886 halfway meeting place of the 'Flatpole' and 'Dicky Bird' bands of warring youths! In the centre is St Paul's Church, built in 1939.

The east end of St Peter's church is seen from Church Road. St Peter's dates from 1833.

The road and rail bridge were built in 1856; today another bridge, built in 1970, runs alongside it, built with money from the Bridge Trust of 1391.

Although there were many shops in this road few people are visible in this scene, though a cart turning into the High Street brings it to life.

Seen from the road bridge, its balustrades recently brutalised by the Oxfordshire County Engineer, the lock, rebuilt in 1922, is little changed, although the Victorian former lock-keeper's cottage is

village, which consisted of about eighteen houses, lay to the south-west of Belsay Castle - or rather it did until the early 19th century, when Sir Charles Monck had it demolished and moved to the main road

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

The buildings on both sides of the road have been extensively altered over the years. Note the Bush Hotel on the right (no longer trading).

In 1901, Hermitage Road was a pleasant, open avenue. The building on the left in view 46642, left, is the Hermitage, home of Frederick Seebohm; very little of it still remains.

In 1901, Hermitage Road was a pleasant, open avenue. The building on the left in view 46642, left, is the Hermitage, home of Frederick Seebohm; very little of it still remains.

These cottages stand at the top of Pack Hill, near its junction with Church Road and Mayfield, in Upper Wanborough. The Cottage Shop was once a shoemaker's premises.