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It provided a centre on the Essex Great Road where sheep and cattle farmers in the area could sell their stock.

The area in the foreground is now pedestrianised, the traffic being diverted into Western Road, seen in the background. On the left is the Gaumont cinema which was originally the Plaza.

The Methodist church on Sandpit Road corner was demolished in July 1988 to make way for the George Yard shopping precinct. It had opened in 1868.

The only other way into Plymouth was on the ferry, but by 1961 a new suspension road bridge had been completed alongside the railway bridge.

The clock tower of the Brine Baths stands toward the end of the street, where the road is congested with buses and lorries.

Pictured from the junction with the main road, the lane leads down past the cottages towards the village school.

Cyclists were still quite safe to meander along in the middle of the road when this photograph was taken in Collingham, near Wetherby.

On the left the display of hardware items has spilled out into the road. The street is a medley of old tile-hung buuildings and imposing Victorian architecture.

A room at the Prospect cost from 4s 6d, with dinner at 6s a head, which put it in the same price as the Grand in Cornwall Road, but more expensive than the West Park, where rooms were from 3s, and dinner

A view across the River Bourne, a tributary of the Thames, with a hay cart fording the river and horse and cart and mounted horseman looking down from the bridge at the lower end of Brighton Road.

Bell Street runs south from the main cross roads. The Ancient House Bookshop on the right hand side is little changed today, although the wonderful metal sign for Reigate Garage has now disappeared.

This mock-Tudor Gothic mansion can be glimpsed from the road. It was for many years the offices of the electricity board and had been created by Lord Lovelace who bought it in 1840.

Standing in Military Road, north-west of Red Lion Square, is the School of Small Arms, the main school of army musketry, founded here in 1854.

Two other people stand watching close to the bridge carrying the road on to Chartham Hatch.

Situated on the high road between Cowes and Ryde, Binstead has views across the Solent to Spithead.

Here is a lovely half- timbered building in this picturesque little village on the Canterbury road. A little girl stands proudly in front, whilst next door baskets are for sale.

This church in busy Marylebone Road is best seen as the climax of a vista from Regent's Park opposite. The architect was Thomas Hardwick, and work was completed in 1817.

Although on a busy road junction in central London, the wards had rural views thanks to the extensive Brompton Cemetery at the back.

On what is now Station Road, on the outskirts of the town, Marsh Hotel plied its trade in a position somewhat distant from the town.

This part of Yelverton, separated from the rest of the village by the main road, goes by the curious name of Leg O'Mutton.

Children from Yew Tree Farm pose outside their gate for the photographer - a major event in this quiet village, well off the main Leyburn road.

South Road is the main route used for through traffic, which is why we can see a petrol tanker (centre left) going though the shopping area.

This is one of the three roads leading to the Market Place, shown at the far back of this view.

Across the Malden road, the parade of shops with flats above date from the mid 1930s.