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This is the A15 road coming in from Bourne, which makes the traffic island a very busy place - it is now much smaller than it is in the picture.

All the hustle and bustle of the annual horse and sheep fairs, held in the village of Topcliffe, on the A168 trunk road south of Thirsk, until the late 1960s, are captured in this splendid photograph.

Motor cars are now much in evidence, with various pedestrians rather anxiously taking care in crossing the road.

As the High Street disappears in the dis- tance it becomes the Monmouth Road.

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

The traffic-free minor road meanders between drystone walls through the dale south towards Grange and Rosthwaite.

Placed beside the Alfred East Gallery, the memorial faces Northampton Road, still tree-lined in 1922.

This view up Parish Road affords a glimpse of what was a centre of communication for the village.

In 1935 the buildings, including the maltings, were demolished as part of a road improvement scheme.

St Michael's church stands on Church Road close to Lower Green. Its predecessor was an important medieval church, but it was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1950, sad to say.

In Roman times Cirencester, Corinium Dubunnorum, was the second most important town in Britain after London, standing near the Roman roads of Akeman Street, the Fosse Way, Ermine Street and the older Icknield

This view of the church is a seldom-seen one, as the building fronts the main road at the other end.

There is no evidence of motor vehicles, although horses are still in use: the stains on the road surface prove that. The statue is that of Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 to 1910.

The Elephant and Castle, a great meeting place of thoroughfares, was termed a 'ganglion of roads' by Dickens in 'Bleak House'.The squat old inn that gave it its name dominates the scene, and is

Until the construction of the A14 bypass, visitors to the town entered via he Old North Road through this narrow medieval bridge and into the busy High Street.

In the centre the long white building is the 16th-century Bridge End Inn, at the junction of New Road and Bridge Street.

Diverging from High Street at the junction with Station Road, Wellington Avenue led directly to the 'Cathedral Church of the British Army'.

Ahead, just left of centre, is the bathing place, and straight ahead are the houses in Melford Road. The bridge has since been replaced, but part of the brick wall to the right remains.

The tall silo above the granary fed grain down the chute and over the road into the mill. The chimney, silo and granary hoist have all gone.

A Georgian house called Belle Vue was built at the foot of Newton Road in the 1780s.

Talbot Arms pub on the right hand side of the photograph has now been renamed the Tunnel Top because there is an air vent nearby for the canal tunnel that runs under the present- day road. A

This swimming pool building was designed by Neville Player, who also designed the College across the road. It opened in 1962 and had a capacity for 220 bathers an hour.

On the western approach to the town, St Andrew's Church, in St Andrew's Road, was built in 1862. Many of its parishioners were employed by the Romford brewery.

Once a coaching-inn, it lost out when the London- Newmarket road was re-routed in the 1850s.