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In the late 17th century the town had an established, high-quality cheese and butter market, with buyers coming from as far as London to do business.

The sunny summers of the 1950s filled this pool, which had excellent amenities – a café, changing rooms, diving boards, and sunbathing and spectator areas.

Looking east with terrace houses on the left, then a thatched cottage and a 19th-century house with an Ionic porch.

It was along this street that the men of the town swarmed in 1381 towards St Albans.

Even so, the population then was about 6000.The town’s development received a boost in 1945 when Rover announced their intention to abandon their Coventry plant and concentrate production at their

Lowestoft's convalescent home was a gift to the town in 1877 from William Birbeck, who was himself ill – he died in 1897.

Brading is one of the oldest towns on the Isle of Wight, once returning two members to Parliament.

The use of the word 'gate', meaning a road or street, comes from the Old Norse 'gata', and is another clue to the antiquity of the town.

In Wallingford's town centre is a fine Market Place.

Before the area was opened up for coal mining Ashington was but a farm; it was the Ashington Coal Co who developed the town, building 300 houses for pitmen and their families.

The heart of the town has all the popular shops together and easily accessible to 1950s shoppers.

The Parade was built in Georgian times as the fashionable residential quarter of the town.

In the earlier years of the 20th century, Bere Regis had a reputation as the toughest town in Dorset, forcefully policed by the local constabulary.

But apart from the motor cars and the considerable increase in visitors, the town has changed little since Thomas Hardy worked here as a young architect a century earlier.

Opened in September 1955 on a site facing Oakley Road, the school offered superb education facilities for the more academic students of the town. As

This card represents some other aspects of the life in and around the town in the 1960s.

Fore Street, leading into the A350 Trowbridge Road, is now a very busy road in and out of town.

Now known as Crown Square, this busy junction at the centre of Matlock has always been the hub of the town.

This is a narrow street of 18th- and 19th-century houses leading down to the harbour.

Famous for its liquorice 'cakes' or sweets, Pontefract is an ancient market town at the junction of the Rivers Aire and Calder, south of Castleford.

It is high summer, judging by the height of the River Teign and the shirt sleeves of the farm labourers.

On the left, next to the only brick façade in town, is J F Goodall, linen draper and outfitter.

Worth village stands in the Forest of Worth, east of Crawley, and was a place of pilgrimage.

Although technically a town (it received a charter in 1280), Over never really developed, and in 1894 was recognised as 'the smallest municipality in the country'.