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The rather odd looking and out-of-scale motor car in the centre of the road has been transplanted from another photograph - a common practice in the early days, used to prolong the life of a postcard

A bygone era of rail travel is perpetuated in the name of this road, photographed some five years before the village station closed.

The view is north-eastwards from Spyway Road over Chaffins Copse (centre), and seems to have been taken as much for the neatly thatched haystack as for the general view.

Portland House, on the right, became ye Old Oak Cafe‚ and was eventually demolished in 1936 to make way for Coronation Road.

A few changes have occurred since 1898 - the road surface is now concrete, and the steps on the right-hand side have been turned so that pedestrians do not step into the traffic.

On the righgt, by the road, are two milk churns awaiting collection. Next to them is the drive to Medstead Manor House.

Situated on Fulford Road, the barracks were originally built around 1795 for the 14th Regimental District and the West Yorkshire Regiment.

Much of the stone from the quarries used to be taken to Weston along linking tunnels which pass beneath Weston Road. These were later to be used as air-raid shelters during the Second World War.

Travellers on the high road between Dorchester and Exeter would have turned off the trail to seek shelter in the New Inn, which is older than its name suggests.

A windmill used to stand across the road, behind the hedge.

Pronounced Slaffham, this quiet village lies close to the A23 London to Brighton road. Note the row of houses on the right - a varied mix of stone houses and tile-hung properties.

It is situated along Ayston Road, next to Meadhurst. There were extensions and modernisation here also in the 1950s.

It is interesting, through photographs such as these, to see how road traffic islands change - compare this with picture N88036 (below).

Roebucks are the males of the roe deer, whose herds once roamed this attractive landscape along the western fringe of the Lancashire hills.

Other sections soon followed, with the Lancaster bypass opening in 1960 and the Thelwall Viaduct, which takes the road high above the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, being completed in

Quartered by a cross-roads, the spacious green contains two monuments. The nearer is a war memorial and the other is a massive stone cross, erected on the base of the original village cross.

Coventry has undergone massive redevelopment since the end of the second world war, not only with projects such as the Broadgate shopping precinct, but an American-inspired partly-elevated ring-road

At its dissolution in 1537, the priory church became the parish church dedicated to St Mary and St Blaise.The picture shows the road past the school with the Priory on the right.The scene today is

In the Fifties, for those who had cars, it was easy to drive into London, especially on a Sunday, and park in Exhibition Road.

A new town hall now stands opposite the Palace, while the foreground area has been sacrificed to the road system.

The area known as Park Road Gardens was purchased by Grange Urban District Council from the Rev James Park in 1926.

Its graveyard spills across the road to the village hall. The garage and old farmhouse next to it remain.

For centuries Rottingdean was a typical downland village, but its character was radically changed when modern roads and houses were constructed at the seaward end.

The mock-Tudor style is often mocked, but anybody taking the Bristol Road through Northfield today (and possibly even in 1955) would struggle to find a better-looking building than this mock-Tudor pub