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Charles Wesley preached here in 1735 when his boat was delayed in the Cowes Roads on his way to Georgia.

The Maltsters Inn can be seen across the road. The flint-walled boatshed on the left is now obscured by a gift shop/information centre.

The circuitous narrow road that leads up from the Swaledale village of Keld is being negotiated by an early motorcar.

Though there are one or two motorcars around, the scene is relatively traffic free; people appear to be quite at ease either walking or standing in the middle of the road.

The hospital has had many additions over the years but the original building facing Holtye Road is little changed.

Small, well-mannered cottages set a later 19th-century scene in the days before parked cars lined the roads.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London-Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

Another view of the dusty, un-made road surface of the High Street which carried so much traffic at the start of the century, together with the intrusive early telegraph poles which, sentinel-like, dwarf

The completion of the road bridge in 1961 signalled the end of the Saltash Ferry.

This distant view was taken from the north of the linear village of Darley Dale, which spreads along the A6 north of Matlock on the road to Bakewell.

It lies half a mile off the road to the right. On the horizon is Hookney Tor.

Bell Road is an echo of Northfield's agricultural past.The population grew by over 200 per cent between 1881 and 1891, nearly all of it overflow from Birmingham; but modern Northfield owes much to

This harpist has attracted a crowd in one of the residential streets off nearby Gray's Inn Road.

Witham's High Street—Newland Street—lies along the Roman road to Colchester, later to be the Great Essex turnpike.The Spread Eagle and the White Hart—two important stopping places for a change of

From medieval times until the early 19th century, Meldreth consisted of several small communities scattered along a two-mile stretch of winding road.

It just goes to show it is not only the roads which suffer from traffic jams.

Station Road c1960 Ainsdale was a failed attempt by Charles Webb to create an up-market residen- tial area close to Birkdale.

The 17th-century farmhouse facing the road has an old central chimney stack with diagonal shafts. It was converted to two cottages and a shop that later became the post office in Victorian times.

Pebble-built cottages line the coast road to the corn windmill, which stands immediately behind the 17th-century harbour. The mill was converted to holiday accommodation as early as 1921.

A dog sits patiently in the middle of the road. Perhaps its master is a few yards away in Loders' public house, the Farmers Arms?

The pond has been much reduced in size: a road has been built over part of it, and the land behind has been used to build a small housing development.

The canal and the railway brought prosperity to Hungerford, though the town's golden era began with the turnpiking of the Bath Road in the 18th century.

This photograph shows W H Smith & Son on the left of the picture, a few yards from the road bridge crossing the River Pang in the centre of the village.

The narrow road on the right leads to the hamlet of Owlpen, and is called Fiery Lane.