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It was during this time that most of the wooden cottages and shops along Beach Road became the concrete amusements and shops we know today.

The carriage road from Liskeard terminated at this tranquil village of brown stone cottages set by a creek swept by the tides.

Pastor W T Richards founded his church in 1943 in a Scout hut, and the present brick building in Pitts Road, now renamed as Slough Christian Centre, was built in 1964.

The Town Hall, across the road, dates from 1888; it mirrors the ogee arch of the cross in its own flat-fronted entrance. It was a gift to the town from the Bathurst family.

Newark's position on the Great North Road and the River Trent attracted industry including flour milling, maltings, brewing, an iron works, leather working, and even a glue factory.

Note how the cobbled pavement beside the churchyard wall on the left contrasts with the more modern kerbed paving across the road.

Narrow streets, pretty cottages (some of them thatched), fishing boats on the beach, and all in a beautiful setting on the Lizard peninsula, put Cadgwith on the list of places to visit once road transport

The road here is much busier today.

St Bartholomew's enjoys an elevated position, possibly the site of a prehistoric fort, at the corner of Church Hill and Vicarage Road.

It is a road of late Victorian houses with names like Pretoria Villas, Rebecca Place and Grasmere. The newly-erected telegraph lines suggest the relative affluence of this street.

The original spa building still exists in the road to the left of the picture.

It is on the top edge of the village: the road to the left leads out of the village towards Watling Street, and the one to the right takes you into the village street.

The tiny hump-backed bridge at Ashness on the narrow road which leads up from the eastern shore of Derwent Water to the Norse hamlet of Watendlath has been seen on countless Lake District calendars,

The barn just up the road was erected in 1742; despite its being in a poor condition today, efforts are being made to restore it for use as a dwelling.

Seen here are the Star, run by Rupert Darby in 1931, and beyond it the Mid Hants Supply Stores Ltd, grocer's and post office; across the road is Bentley Garage.

Unlike Bradford, Bristol was not about to embark on running a railway: they simply wanted the trackbed for a new road to Avonmouth, for the Gorge was not wide enough for both.

It was known as Horeham Road until World War Two, and is now known for the Merrydown cider plant, which was founded in 1946 and is now the dominant presence of the village centre.

Note how the road and the river are sandwiched into the narrow gorge cut by the River Derwent following the Ice Age.

Further along the road is a busy pub, the Red Lion. Today, Biddenden cider can be enjoyed in most Kent pubs.

As the community expanded, so the need for shops grew; in 1883 Kent built this row on Warwick Road, rather immodestly calling it Kentish New Town.

The livestock market was originally held in the High Street on Tuesdays, before being moved to North Street in 1865; thirty years later it moved again to this site in Woodbridge Road.

Laindon School—formerly Laindon High Road School—opened in 1928.

This building in Neston Road, with its ornate green lantern above the main entrance, once served as a café.

The Romans mined Droitwich salt on a large scale, and this is the road they built running east from Droitwich through Feckenham to Alcester.