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Banks Road and The Crescent (W170049) form the heart of the original village. There is a wide-ranging array of shops, many of them tucked away beneath the arcades.

Alsager's station is just where the road bends, and there is a level crossing at this point, just beyond the cyclists.

Services operated were Ferry Road to Torpoint (fares 1d and 2d); the Barbican to Turnchapel and Oreston; Admiral's Hard to Cremyll (Mount Edgcumbe); and Mutton Cove to Cremyll.

Just five miles south of Huddersfield on the road to Wakefield, Kirkburton in the 19th century was just as polluted by smoke as its near neighbours.

The two buildings either side of the turning into Albert Road have long gone, to be replaced by new offices.

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Today, it would be difficult to stand for long in the middle of this road junction at the bottom of town; here West End meets Fore Street and Penryn Street (right).

The sign against the side of the shop, above the window and entrance, reads 'R.E. Seigh - Grocer and Provision Dealer. Shipping Supplied'.

But alas, the name is lost; the pub is now the Feathers, and the road outside it has had a chicane installed to calm the hurrying motorists.

Historically the Great North Road made Stilton a busy place, though here in the 1950s it looks rather quiet. A huge Bell sign marks the ancient stone inn.

Aylesbury Road has probably the best run of historic buildings in any of Wendover's streets. Some good Georgian fronts hide timber-framed earlier buildings.

The public road was also closed and the grounds landscaped.

Not long before this photograph was taken, the place consisted of the High Street and just a couple of other roads.

James Duckworth Ltd, the grocery and provision chain, had a branch in this street, and others in Waterloo Road and Whitegate Drive.

South of Kettering, the village of Isham's best parts lie east of the main Wellingborough Road. Here we look along Middle Street with Little Thatches on the left, its windows now painted white.

Church Street is much quieter, away from the A16 Stamford to Spalding road.

Pisa is famous for its leaning tower, but Surfleet's church of St Lawrence is a notable south Lincolnshire rival, as it leans considerably towards the A152 main road despite two very robust buttresses.

The journey took over thirty hours, and was an acceptable alternative to being shaken and bounced along the Great North Road in a mail-coach.

Halifax is also where English toffee was invented, and it was here in 1934 that Percy Shaw produced the first cats' eyes, or to give them their proper name, reflecting road studs.

This is a distant view taken from the west, with the A6 trunk road in the foreground.

Silver Street originally stood just outside the city walls, linking Lowesmoor with Corn Market, until it was cut off from the latter by the construction of City Walls Road.

The post office moved next door to the White Hart from the newsagent across the road in 1945.

In this wide street, cars can park on both sides of the road and still allow for traffic. Cannon Street is one of the oldest parts of the town, and dates from the 1850s.

The church has a most unusual feature - built into the wall around the churchyard, overlooking the road, there is a pulpit from where, perhaps, the vicar could harangue those people taking