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New in 1772, the road was built to bypass congested town centres from Star Hill, Rochester to the bottom of Chatham Hill.

In 1988 a tile maze was created from the centre of the west wall to the font, and a new organ was dedicated.

Two vehicles from the United Bus Company pick up passengers, the nearer one (centre right) serving the Great Ayton to Redcar route. Behind it, the tall stone building was the Midland Bank.

Cars parked down the centre of the High Street occupy the site of the historic outdoor town market, which still operates today and makes this area a very busy place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

In the centre, in line with the Marine Hotel, a hut carries the sign 'Lost Children' - always a possibility at the seaside!

It would be a few years on before electric street-trams would link Headingley with Leeds city centre.

The lifeboat house in the distance (centre) was built in 1899 to replace an earlier station. It was closed in 1934, but it had a brief reprieve during the Second World War.

Holiday bungalows and chalets line the skyline, and the Cove Café is perched on a shelf halfway down the cliff (centre).

Looking out onto Christchurch Bay, Mudeford remains the centre of the fishing industry in the area.

The beach at Charmouth is a mecca for geologists and fossil hunters, and explanatory walks take place from the heritage centre by the mouth of the Char.

The white Portland stone building was painted grey with the coming of war, but a bomb fell in the centre in 1940 killing seven people during the 9.00 pm news - which continued uninterrupted.

Shaftesbury Avenue can be seen in the centre. There is new traffic fencing up against Eros, which today has been moved a little to the left as part of a wide pedestrian area.

Cheap Street, off Market Place and now pedestrianised, retains its medieval and Tudor character: it has a stream running down its centre in a channel.

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

Closer to the city centre, Broadgate is nowadays a frantically busy dual carriageway, and the site on the left a bus station.

Woolworths and the 1907 Perpendicular Gothic-style Mac Fisheries (a chain long departed from our high streets) were recently demolished to make way for the High Street facade to the Waterside shopping centre

Woolworths and the 1907 Perpendicular Gothic-style Mac Fisheries (a chain long departed from our high streets) were recently demolished to make way for the High Street facade to the Waterside shopping centre

Granted a market charter by William III, Hawes later became a centre for textiles, quarrying and the production of Wensleydale cheese.

The large four-storey timber-framed building in the centre was a succession of shoe shops. Today it is the Woolwich Building Society.

Today, only the gallows pole across the street remains of its distinctive sign, while the building itself, along with Kemp's the bootmaker's, has been replaced by a massive new shopping centre.

The photograph was taken from the centre of the street, showing a banner promoting Hertford's County Hospital, but with many of the same businesses still functioning.

The surrounding area, close to the sea, was a centre for smuggling during the 18th century. Especially remembered as a smuggler is Pierre Latour, or French Pete, as he was known.

The sign in the centre, pointing against the flow of traffic today, indicates the A369 to Bath and Bristol - the High Street used to have two-way traffic.

To the west lies the village centre and the partly Norman church of All Saints. The First World War poet Edward Thomas lived at nearby Berryfield Cottage.