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The scene recorded in this photograph is impossible to find today, so greatly has Hagley Road changed.

In 1725 a tollgate was erected across Stratford Road close to the Saracen's Head. This was the first stage on the Birmingham-London turnpike, and the Saracen's Head profited greatly from the coaches.

This spot, where the road west from Clitheroe crosses the Ribble, was once known as Eadsford, the bridge from which the photograph was taken being built over an ancient ford.

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).

The village war memorial stands at the road junction (centre left), and on the right is the entrance to The Queens Head Hotel.

Horndean began as a result of the 18th-century turnpike road.

Wallop means 'valley of the stream,' and if we look closely we can just see the Wallop brook on the left of the road.

Near the middle of Wales, sheep are driven along a back road near the old market town. Llanidloes was one of the major centres for wool and flannel production from the late middle ages.

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.

Taken from the corner of Arrowe Park Road, this photograph is looking east along The Village.

Alan Hole & Sons of Morriston is now situated across the road from the shop in the picture.

Back into Willingdon, continue north to turn towards Jevington, through Wannock, and onto the scenic Jevington Road.

The Black Bell public house lies at the centre of the village, though the roads are busier these days. The River Stour is one of southern England's beautiful rivers, though given to occasional floods.

This view looks west along Newbridge Road with its terraces of neat villas. These all survive, albeit now with concrete roof tiles.

The village was an important staging point on the Great North Road.

The sheer number of people forces them to use the road rather than the pavement. The hat is de rigeur to both sexes.

Seen from its modern bypass on the A168 trunk road south of Thirsk, Topcliffe looks like a modern village of new housing estates.

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

Over the last two hundred years erosion has seen two rows of houses and a road crash into the sea.

The Liskeard to Callington road crosses the River Lynher here on one of Cornwall's many historic bridges. First recorded in 1478, its granite arches were widened on the far, downstream, side in 1874.

This is the best view, but care must be taken on this very narrow road. Even more awe-inspiring is to imagine the journey over this pass for a horse and carriage.

East and to the left of this view, the St Audries Bay Holiday Club occupies the cliff tops at the end of a winding lane that descends from the main road.

It is hard to believe that this narrow road was once part of one of the major highways of England which had linked London and Chester since medieval times.