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This view of Matlock Bath is taken from the station on the Midland line, and shows the beautiful setting of this Derwent-side village.

Filling stations are no longer allowed to have their pumps directly adjacent to pavements, but in the days of the dependable ash-framed Morris Traveller, it was pretty much the norm.

This picture was taken before the building of the bus station.

Unlike the other villages that are mentioned in this book, Balcombe has a railway station, and it has undergone a considerable change since this photograph, though some buildings are still

Those days are over; the small port, dominated by a big power station seen on the far right, now serves as a pleasant boat marina.

This photograph looks up the High Street towards the town's bus station. A rarity today would be the pork butchers' shop, on the right with the pram outside.

In the background a train crosses the lofty viaduct headed for the town station.

This station was closed in 1934, although it re-opened temporarily during the Second World War.

The small building at the far end of the quay, below Lantern Hill, with the small chapel on top, is the lifeboat station.

Tuesday 14 May 1940, Anthony Eden made a radio broadcast to the country encouraging men who were too old for active service, or who had not already been called up, to report to the local police station

It needed seventy pairs of narrow boats to work the trips carrying coal to Stourport power station.

The site of the old village blacksmith's has been developed for the modern needs of visitors to the area with a filling station, motor repairs, teas and guest-house.

So busy was London bridge at peak times that the authorities were compelled to station police constables along the central rib of the roadway to encourage a smooth flow of traffic.

One big change, however, is that a donkey does not go to the nearby railway station to collect their luggage any more.

ironmaster`s house, built in the early 17th century; it was the home of the Burrell family (whose heraldic device is shown in mosaic on the Burrell Arms pub opposite Haywards Heath railway station

At Rustington, the 11th-century church and the cottages in The Street, Sea Lane and Station Road are all built of these flint boulders.

In 1906, plans for Admiralty Pier were amended to allow the building of a station for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway. Two years earlier, transatlantic liners had begun to use the port.

A power station opened in the 1960s. The once busy railway sheds now house the Didcot Railway Centre, where a large collection of steam locomotives and coaches can be seen on display.

Nowadays it has views north-west to Steep Holm island and depressing views west to the troubled Hinckley Point nuclear power station.

Closer to the city centre, Broadgate is nowadays a frantically busy dual carriageway, and the site on the left a bus station.

Moreover, a line drawn through it is said to separate the London of pleasure and fashion from that of work and business.The railway station occupies the ground floor of the prestigious company-owned

The White Hart on the right of Thrapston High Street closed in 1970, and was later demolished to make way for a new library and fire station.

This view looks north along Midland Road, its name deriving from the old railway station. The terraces and villas shown are all intact today.

sizes the larger retail chains, such as Boots and Burtons, have moved to bigger and better premises in the new Horsefair development - a successful retail location between the Market Place and the bus station