Roads Collection (page 13)

Dancing Roadmenders
A group of men, roadmenders, one of them playing a fiddle while the others dance and fool around in their lunch hour!

Timber roads on the battlefields near Verdun
Two French soldiers making their way along the log-tracks crossing the scarred landscape left by German shelling near Verdun

ENGLAND SIGN POST
An England signpost on the border with Scotland

Guildford By-Pass 1940S
An early photograph of Guildford By-Pass, Surrey, England, with virtually no traffic on it at all

Television in a private car, demonstrated to Radio Olympia v
Television in a private car; an experimental installation in a standard Vanguard saloon. The screen is not visible to the driver, thus avoiding distraction

Cats Eyes on Road
A Cats Eye road marking. Cats eyes were invented in 1933 by Percy Shaw of Yorkshire, England

Towaway Zone
Towaway zone in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Magazine Bins Boston
Bins offering give-away magazines on a street in central Boston

Empty Motorway 1960S
King of the Road: This lucky vehicle driver has the motorway to itself in the early days of motorways in Britain

Brabys machine
Engraving of Brabys machine for breaking up roads and scarifying or tilling land

Old Toll House
The Old Toll House at Sidmouth, Devon

Llanfair Gate Toll House
The six-sided Toll House at Llanfair Gate, Isle of Anglesey, Wales

Llangefri Clock Tower
This Neo-Gothic clock tower in Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales, is a War Memorial to George Pritchard Rayner, who died at Bloemfontein Hospital (Boer War) in 1900. Unveiled 1902

Northern Road Newcastle
A plan of the road heading north from Durham through Newcastle and further northwards through other towns in Northumberland

Paris Traffic Hell
Cars and buses fight for space in traffic chaos at Place de l Opera, Paris

Islington Street Scene
A street scene in Islington, London including horse-drawn trams

Congestion at Bank
Congested London streets - the scene outside the Bank of England

Building the M1 Motorway. Our photograph shows a section under construction at Upper Heyford, Northamptonshire, England. The Southern stretch opened 2 November 1959

Robert William Thomson
ROBERT WILLIAM THOMSON Scottish engineer, invented the locomotive traction engine for use on common roads

A Suburban Road
A mother and child walk hand in hand along an English suburban road, unmade-up but with a sidewalk though the pair aren t using it

TOLL GATE
A young couple in an open-top sports car pay their dues at the Woody Bay toll gate at the beginning of the private road from the Valley of the Rocks to Martinhoe Church, Devon

Child at Play 1922
A young child finds an ingenious use for a collection of books from the shelf. They make wonderful bridges and roads for toys to travel along!

Boy Crossing Sweeper
A barefoot crossing sweeper in Trafalgar Square, London, England

Crossing Sweeper 1883
An old Indian crossing sweeper in the streets of London

s / Coach / Kennington Tpike
A crowded stagecoach at the Kennington turnpike

Half a Mile to Egypt
A cyclist near Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, England, pauses to contemplate a strange sign reading Egypt half a mile !

Clapper Stile
A clapper stile at Linton, Cambridgeshire, England

Cars on the Motorway
Cars on the motorway

Street at Letchworth
A horse carriage is the only moving vehicle in this street scene at Letchworth, Hertfordshire

Street Scene in Calcutta
The traffic is mostly horse- drawn in Chitpore Road, Calcutta

Lollipop Lady Liverpool
A lollipop lady protects school children while they cross a Liverpool street

Londons Piccadilly
Horse-buses and cabs clatter along Londons Piccadilly, while a carriage stops outside the Yorkshire Grey public house

Commercial City Street
A commercial street in the city - the Haymarket at Aldgate, London

Spacious Tokyo Street
A birds eye view of Hiokoji in Ueno, Tokyo

Smithfield / Cloth Alley
A narrow London street, not greatly changed since Elizabethan times - Cloth Alley, Smithfield

Street Scene in Bombay
A horse-drawn tram makes its way down a Bombay street, but no one is hurrying to get out of its way

Wood Green Cycle Club
The members of Wood Green (Essex) Cycle Club poise for a group photo : this is the great age of cycling, when roads are uncongested and cycling is a pleasure

Pneumatic Drill
A man with curly dark hair using a pneumatic drill to dig up an old pavement

Paying at Toll Gate 1850
Paying at the toll gate

Crowded London Street
A congested street in the City of London - buses, wagons and cabs compete for passage

Whitehall Congestion1875
Pedestrians and vehicles make slow progress down Whitehall, London

Roller (Robinson)
Steam roller in a suburban street

Aldgate Congestion
A " traffic block" in Aldgate High street, east London. Note the predominance of horse- drawn over motorised vehicles; Aldgate tube station and the Three Nuns Hotel on the left

Turnpike, Kensington
KENSINGTON TURNPIKE showing toll gate and road menders

Paris Street Scene 1900
Traffic in a Paris street, a policeman controls both motor buses and horse carriages

Working horses drinking at a trough, London
Working horses (cab horses and cart horses) in a London street, drinking at a trough on a hot day

Road Block / Germany / 1921
During political unrest suspect cars are stopped on country roads

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