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Anybody standing today in approximately the same position as the photographer would see nothing more than a couple of dreary buildings and one of the Kingfisher Centre's multi-storey car parks.

The Weir Hotel was well used by motorists, as we can see from the many cars parked outside.

The natural landscape was to be kept as linear parks, so that everyone was within walking distance of the countryside.

This building is the last remnant of the Tannery, and still stands east of the bridge opposite Greenaway's car park.

The Victorian landscape gardeners could not resist their desire for order and symmetry, but the park is diverse.

However, judging by the parked cars and caravans, the visitors are quite happy just to look at the magnificent view over the cliff top.

The dredging and reclamation of this part of the river was short lived, and today it has been turned into car parking space.

Luton has its parks to remind us of how great houses and landowners gave way to the needs of the many, with great estates being turned over to the people.

Frensham is known for its ponds and its common - now Frensham Country Park.

In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.

There are fewer park benches now, and trees have grown up to obscure the view of the Henry I memorial cross on the right.

The photographer is standing on the Abbey Green - now one vast car park - looking across the market place and up the High Street.

There were over two miles of footpaths in the park.

This sylvan path winds down from the castle inner bailey towards Park Lodge, and then through the Roman wall to more open parkland with the boating pool and the River Colne.

Beyond the drinking fountain, now in The Vale Park, is the World War I tank displayed here in the 1920s.

The Kinglake Monument has gone, and the streets around have created a traffic junction here, with obvious parking restrictions.

Bateman was also responsible for laying out the Arboretum at Derby, the first public park in England.

The practice of parking a bicycle by leaning it on one pedal against the kerb is rarely seen these days.

This pretty village has changed little over the years, apart from an increase in traffic - here the Bell Hotel claims to have a large car park.

Work on developing what was grazing land into the park we know today is under way.

The photograph was taken opposite the Scouts Headquarters looking along the B278 towards Oaks Park.

It is now a caravan park.

The Lamb (with the sign) has closed but the George and Dragon just beyond is still going, although its entrance and car park are to the rear.

The area was then landscaped and turned into a park, which was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1921.