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The old market cross stands on a grassy verge to the left of the pub sign. Behind the cross is the entrance to the pub car park.

In this picture we can already see the growth of the congestion that was soon to become a problem in the centre of the town.

This view takes in the east end of the Market Place and Front Street. On the right is G W Roy's fancy repository and the post office, and just beyond that is the Black Horse pub.

Wirral fishermen are loading mussels into jute sacks ready for transportation to the restaurants of Cheshire and Liverpool. The Boat House is visible at the end of The Parade.

Sandlea Park nestles in the centre of West Kirby, but the swings, see-saw and climbing frame have long gone, probably as a result of EU health and safety regulations.

Here we can see a range of mid to late Victorian architecture. The road is unsurfaced, but the tramlines are clearly visible - there is a tram in the distance.

This must have been taken very shortly before work began on the demolition of Evesham Street. E A Hodges has become just another branch of Dillons, presumably as a result of a take-over.

The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.

The post box still stands in the garden of the shop at the corner of Station Road and Woodside Road, but the telephone box, peeping into the left of the photograph, has disappeared.

West Street was originally part of the main route through Sompting, linking it to Broadwater and North Lancing.

The newly installed railway connection serving the Weald of Kent had no doubt dropped many of these workers off to start work in the hop fields.

Nestling in the borough of Maidstone, this village is made up of three main streets.

The four roads which meet at the Cross are Moss Grove, Market Street, High Street, and Summer Hill, which are part of the main roads linking Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Wolverhampton.

Until 1964, Mill Lane was a picturesque street of brick and half-timbered cottages, some of them medieval.

This hotel is on Penns Lane, near Walmley, south of Sutton Coldfield. The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills.

Until incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, Yardley had been a rural Worcestershire manor for nearly 1,000 years, but only the church and a couple of timber-framed buildings survive from those days.

It provided the corn and cloth mills of Chalford with the means of finding new markets for their wares until this mode of transport was superseded by the Gloucester to Swindon railway line.

We are looking up river towards the lock gates, with the site of the former abbey and its grounds on the right.

The early 18th-century Bell Inn on the Eastbourne Road was one of several important staging inns in this village when Cobbett came here in 1822 and lauded it as being beautiful.

Village residents stare at the camera; over to the left stands the premises of W Wright, draper and outfitter.

The church was dedicated to St Mary the Virgin during the Norman period; it had belonged to a former Benedictine priory founded by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury.

The village lies inland from Hastings; its medieval church of St Leonard is isolated away from the houses among the trees.

The Victoria Statue 1902 Thomas Brock's superb 13ft high bronze statue of Queen Victoria, which stands at the seaward end of Grand Avenue, was unveiled in 1901.

The red and white lighthouse at the foot of the cliffs is pictured here. It was started in July 1899 and was completed in 1902.