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Road and rail links (it has two railway stations) make it ideal commuter country. A roundabout has replaced what was once the village square.

This view is of East Street, looking westwards to the Town Hall (left) with the prominent frontage of William Elmes, draper and outfitters, on the other side of the road (right).

Opposite Gray’s Inn Road is Staple Inn. It was once the meeting place for wool merchants with a custom house where wool dues were collected.

Basildon's first new school—Swan Mead Junior & Infants, in Church Road—opened in April 1954. Kingswood was built soon after.

It was the premises of Allan Henbest, a tailor and outfitter, formerly of Laindon High Road. He

We are looking west from the Rectory Road corner. The shops on the left were sacrificed when the new A13 cut across Pitsea in the early 1970s.

Although the medieval manor house of the D'Eyncourt family was demolished in the 1920s for road widening, the fine parish church remains.

Even now, you cannot help noticing the particularly deep gutters lining the road. They were installed in the 17th century, in an attempt to improve the city's water supply.

Between the entries of Hermitage Lane and Portland Road can just be seen the little shop of Arthur Paine, hairdresser; and on the right, at No 12 Middle Row, is William John Simmons Mann,

Armstrong's wine merchants at No 12, one of the oldest surviving buildings in the road, now has a new upper window on its south side.

Overlooked by the cathedral, New Road is one of the most attractive grounds in the country. There has been a county side since 1847 but the present club dates from 1865.

It has since been moved to Lynn Road.

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile-hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

It was near to Hocomb Road, and known No 17 Families Camp – note the signpost to it on the right. Facilities at the camp were more than tolerable, and some families were reluctant to move away.

Parts of the High Street and Warwick Road were also destroyed. This is Mill Lane today, a pedestrianised passageway from High Street to Mell Square.

The YHA sign on the right points to the youth hostel that used to be at the end of Eastfield Road.

Dispensary for the poor had been set up at the rear of the churchyard in 1818, but there was an increasing need for better facilities, and the Infirmary & Dispensary was built in New London Road

Drivers of vehicles such as the gig in the foreground, not only had the gradient to contend with, but also the uneven road surface.

Queens Road, at the top of Park Street, was chosen as the site for both the City Art Gallery and the City Museum.

Manor Road would not win any architectural awards; in fact, the picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns where similar houses were built.

The fences on the left belong to the back gardens of houses in Laleham Road, a Victorian and Edwardian expansion of the town.

This finely-composed study shows the Afon Bowydd, the road bridge, the railway bridge, the ranks of terraces of Blaenau, and the mountains beyond.

Apart from the metalled road, this view has changed little in 100 years.

Recent road schemes have meant that the mill-workers' cottages on the right have been demolished to make way for a new roundabout, with a modern block of flats instead.