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This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

This narrow road is unusually quiet - it must have been a weekday.

The narrow road on the right leads to the hamlet of Owlpen, and is called Fiery Lane.

Only the Burgh Heath Parade and the petrol station are recognisable today in this view from The Green, Reigate Road.

On the opposite side of the road, behind the thatched cottage, is the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, built in 1890.

This group of Tudor houses was originally plastered, and before a road-widening scheme in 1931, three gables stood across the St Margaret's Plain end.

The ivy has now gone completely, and so has the chestnut tree on the other side of the road.

This hilltop village, at the head of the Coombe Valley, sits astride the main road between Bude and Barnstaple. It was once the Pilgrim's route to St Michael's Mount.

This is now Coral Beach, with made-up roads and caravans that look more like mobile homes.

In the middle distance the London Brighton and South Coast Railway lines cut across Brighton Road on a level crossing.

In Victoria Road, just east of the A355 as it passes through Farnham Common, the late 19th-century Victoria Hotel is now The Victoria, with its brickwork painted cream and the window jambs and quoins

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

This is now Coral Beach, with made-up roads and caravans that look more like mobile homes.

In its early years the main entrance to Charterhouse was along Peperharow Road, seen here from the water tower on Frith Hill. Development with houses for staff was rapid.

The road leads to Deepcut, at that time the home to a great number of soldiers.

Victoria Road, leading to Heath Park on the south side of the railway, provides the photographer with a catwalk for an Edwardian fashion parade.

It is surprising that there were not more accidents in the days when the main road passed through the middle of the Market Place.

The Street at Lancing was originally part of the main route through North Lancing, but it became an access road after the creation of the manor ground and a by-pass route in the early 19th century.

In 1808 a group of cottages stood on the western side of the road facing Dole Green, but only one early 19th-century building had survived by the 1990s.

Stourbridge's great tragedy is its ring road, one of the most damaging examples of its type in existence.

Just across the road is the Gigmill pub, a reminder of Stourbridge's days as a wool town in the 17th century. A gig was a machine which raised the nap on cloth.

In Station Road you can book a motorboat or cruiser, and if you are a land-lubber or onlooker you could enjoy a meal in one of the many restaurants.

The iron bridge, raised in 1914, carries the London road over the River Medway into Rochester; it replaced the old stone bridge, which had stood a little further upstream by the Bridge Chapel.

A contrast to the stadium complex, and the numerous large office blocks that have materialised over the past twenty years, particularly along Empire Way, the road swings to rise up to the Wembley Park