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The beautiful mature trees make an attractive setting in high summer along High Road at its junction with White Hill, extreme left, and Hogscross Lane.

Elmore Cottages still command the High Road opposite the village pond and crossroads but have been extended on the south side where the fence on the flint wall has been removed.

Frank Butcher`s newsagent and tobacconist shop at the north end of High Road has a well stocked window but alas has now been demolished, and the other shops have closed.

A wealth of timbers, tiles, gables, chimney-stacks and a thatched gateway make another attractive High Road house north of Ruffetts Cottages. It is now obscured by trees and hedges.

In the 19th century, various industries were established to replace the wool cloth ones; these included brewing, with the splendidly named Anglo-Bavarian Brewery being established near Commercial Road

The Village 1959 At the west end of the village, at the junction of Gainsborough Road with the A30, is this former school of the 1880s, built in rock-faced rubble stone and ashlar dressings.

The A361 Frome to Trowbridge road separates St Laurence's church, with its rugged and battlemented 15th-century west tower, from the rest of the village.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

The brand-new tower of the Town Hall can be seen above the far shops in North End, which today is a pedestrianised road.

The Knutsford Road swing-bridge lies open to allow the passage of a ship outward-bound from Manchester. In the background is the Latchford railway viaduct, constructed in 1893.

Settle lies on the road between Skipton and Ingleton. On the right is the Elizabethan-style Town Hall, built in 1832, and in the background, somewhat smothered by washing, is the Shambles.

The village lies at the head of a small creek off the Camel estuary; this narrow lane has become the main road between Wadebridge and Padstow.

The Broomfield Road premises - pictured in the year of their completion - were the school's third proper home.

The small boy's sailor suit was typical of the Edwardian period; as were the white skirts, worn only a couple of inches from the surface of the dirt road.

The road to the front of the houses is now much wider, and there is a small park opposite the college.

The south porch was removed for road widening in 1831, and is now a folly at Nowton Park.

The narrow road was just about suitable for the volume of traffic when this view was taken.

Queniborough has the good fortune to be sited away from major roads, although it has become almost joined to industrial Syston.

This view looks north up Portobello market in Notting Hill's Portobello Road. To the left is Elgin Crescent, and on the right is Colville Terrace.

Further down the road we come to the Gower Heritage Centre.

Here we see a change of pace compared to some of the previous pictures: the pavements are crowded with pedestrians and the road is heaving with traffic. 1955 was a year of newspaper and dock strikes;

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.

Like the estate on which it stands, the pub was named after the Shire Lodge, which still stands on Rockingham Road.