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Even a quiet village of this type has had recourse to road markings for the traffic increasingly passing through. A solitary boy on a bicycle passes the village shop.

Although not a market day, there is still plenty of activity along the road.

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church was built during 1867 to accomodate the increasing number of Catholics in the area, and to replace St Oswald's Church on Hyndburn Road.

To the right of the bend in the road there is a drop down to what was the Commercial Hotel, sited near what was the port in times past.

Cyclists and pedestrians occasionally found the tram- lines an extra hazard on Dorset's rough and ready roads.

Here we see a quiet road, with rather neglected grass verges outside the houses. In the background, on the right of the picture, is the spire of the church of St Mary the Virgin.

Yellow 'no waiting' lines do not yet disfigure the road surface.

The brick building on the other side of the road was the school, which had been in the adjacent white house until 1851. Benjamin Horth, the then headmaster, was also the village postman.

Until 1925 the settlement was known as Horeham Road, but following a ballot of the villagers the name was changed to Horam.

Northleach stands on the road from South Wales to London, and so it became an important coaching town where inns such as the half-timbered Kings Head on the left provided shelter and accommodation to passengers

On the opposite side of the road are the premises of Clegg & Son, which operates today as Cleggs Vantage Pharmacy. The post office next door has closed.

To the left, children cycle in the road; others sit on benches or the pavement. A cyclist makes his way to Mid Hants Supply Stores in the centre of the village.

The whitewashed façade of the Rose and Crown Hotel is a landmark on the main road through Wensleydale in the village of Bainbridge, once the 'capital' of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th

We are in the centre of the linear village of Long Preston, which is bisected by the busy A65 Skipton to Kirkby Lonsdale road.

Before the construction of the Senate House in the early 18th century, students received their degrees in the Church of Great St Mary's, whose tower dominates the right-hand side of the road.

Continuing south, cross the Eastbourne to Seaford road into the centre of East Dean village with its steep winding lanes.

A handful of wagons and handcarts, along with two cyclists in the foreground, are the only traffic on what was to become one of the county town's most congested roads.

We are looking down the Chatteris road, where very little has changed in the past 40 years.

Cafés across the road include Kings, the Belmont, and in the distance, Pybus Brothers, near to the Palace Cinema.

Situated at the junction of Prince's Road and Hanger Hill, this was formerly called The Birches. By the 1960s it was divided into flats and bedsits.

As a pioneering motorist himself, Warnes recognised the tourist potential of the motor car, and in York Road opened what was claimed to be the first garage incorporated into an English hotel.

This lane leads from the main through road to the church and Manor House. The house on the left has been demolished, and the lane now has modern houses on both sides.

It is surprising that there were not more accidents in the days when the main road passed through the middle of the Market Place.

Great swathes of countryside were cut through to make roads and roundabouts.