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The Gothic-style monument at the end of the road is still in place; it is a drinking fountain presented to the town by the Hon Mark Rolle in 1870. The building on the left is the town hall.

The road leading to the Dee estuary is relatively peaceful in 1960, and the roundabout, resplendent with flower beds, is a reminder of earlier civic pride in such innovations.

Few would dare to venture onto the roads in the vulnerable contraption driven by the man on the right.

Set back from the road edge is a substantial 17th-century farmhouse; we can just see its large chimney stack with grouped diagonal shafts.

The thatched Brown's farm, on Willisham Road, was one of several in the area owned by Jack Gibbons.

Boroughbridge probably saw its best days when it was a coaching town for traffic on the Great North Road and had no fewer than twenty-two inns. This picture shows the 14-bed Three Greyhounds Hotel.

This photograph shows Victoria Road and the approach to Bank Top railway station.

The only traffic is a horse-drawn conveyance in this view of the cross-roads village on a ridge of the High Weald above the River Rother. Today, Stonegate is close to the Bewl Bridge Reservoir.

It was the gateway to the Sychnant Pass, the mountain road to Conwy and the Fairy Glen.

Inns and restaurants such as the Old Plough and the White Horse (left) served the travelling public on the Great North Road until a bypass was built for the A1 to the west of the village.

A farm van fords the river on the back road to Hinxton from Duxford. The footbridge is often in use when there are flash floods. Further upstream is a watermill that is still in working order.

This is an excellent view showing the protective measures taken to try and prevent the road (and houses!) being washed away by the more ferocious storms.

New Road Side is here still a street of small, traditional shops.

His mock-Tudor designs were chosen for the redevelopment of Commercial Square during the 1920s, and his foray into Art Deco can still be seen at Clive Court in nearby Sydney Road.

Near the Madron-Morvah road in Cornwall, this Neolithic burial chamber was restored in 1824 when the capstone fell to the ground during a storm.

A few miles south of Truro, Feock is picturesquely situated at the junction of the Carrick Roads with Restronguet Creek. Its Victorian church, St Feoca, has a detached tower.

These children may well have been from the old National School, built on nearby St Thomas Road in 1840. There is an odd division between the well-dressed children (teacher's pets, perhaps?)

On the left-hand side of the road we can see the Ship inn, and also a sign for Regent petrol. One wonders how busy this petrol station would have been in those days, just 40 years ago!

Not to be outdone, the chemist just across the road proclaims that his establishment is the largest in the world. Harrogate had become a fashionable town noted for its fine shops and rich teas.

Beyond Hounslow, the Great West Road divided into the two coaching routes leading to Bath and Exeter.

Talbot Road was developed by Thomas Clifton to link his estate at Layton with the Promenade. When he died, Thomas bequeathed Talbot Square to the town.

The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road. Once stage coaches thundered through, forcing bystanders onto the narrow pavements.

Bedford Street is another road that disappeared from the map following the blitz.

Set a short distance away from the Cromer to Norwich road, Aldborough offers a spacious prospect with cottages grouped round a broad green.