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Bainbridge was once an important junction, for here the roads to and from Lancaster, Swaledale and Westmorland met.

The find was enough to convince the experts that the Roman crossing point had been located, though there is still some debate as to the original course of the Roman road.

Today the mill has been turned into an inn, and the fields below the steep road have been laid out as a car park for visitors to Polperro village that lies down to the right.

We are on the Fair Oak Road, but here looking back towards Eastleigh. The No 43 bus (the front one) was a service between Bishop's Waltham and the airport via Bishopstoke and Eastleigh.

Here the photographer looks north along the High Street, towards its junction with Bridge Street to the right, and Desborough Road curving left.

Many others followed in the 1960s and 70s, and the school occupies most of the south side of the road, with its playing fields extending close to the River Nene.

This is the extremely busy A15 main road heading north to Folkingham, Lincoln and eventually the Humber Bridge and south (the way we are facing) to Market Deeping and Peterborough.

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.

As we leave the station, the first street we see is Dorridge Road.

Another highlight for children used to be the travelling fair which visited the Lickeys on bank holidays, occupying a site on the corner of Lickey Road and Leach Green Lane.

The original village remained agricultural, but a subsidiary settlement grew up on the Bristol road which had already become a sizeable suburb when Northfield was incorporated into Birmingham in

The Osborne Hotel is across the road opposite the station's approach. The field in the foreground still produces hay: at least the farming was a constant.

The photographer is standing on Monks Hill, looking down the winding road that leads to the centre of the original village.

The gardens and rockeries create secluded little seating areas, while the winding path leads up to Birnbeck Road. Over the trees, the roof of Glentworth Hall is visible.

The scooter is king of the road. The rider is glancing towards the Blue Boar Inn, which dates from 1691. The International Stores are opposite under the elaborate striped awning.

The Circus, in the town centre, is where five roads meet. It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners.

This was the gateway that led to the road to London. In the 10th century, when permission was granted for a house to be built on the bar, the yearly rent charged was sixpence.

These once quiet roads are now filled with heavy traffic.

Guarding the road from the south, the Hotspur Gate was built in 1450; a licence to fortify the Border town of Alnwick had been granted in 1434.

The road rises up from the south, past the parish church, to enter Ibstock, gateway to industrial north-west Leicestershire.

Looking West This view looks down Commercial Road towards the old market site.

The road was developed in the Victorian period, and most of the houses and shops, like those on the right, are of that date.

Beyond this group is the road to Cat House Hard on the Orwell.

Beyond this group is the road to Cat House Hard on the Orwell.