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Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.

Another view that clearly shows the 1883 promenade and sea wall. Before this was built, the beach stretched much further inland and sand dunes often formed as far as Regent Street.

There are no traffic lights here yet - it was to be another ten years before they appeared. Life was simpler for learner drivers then.

A mother is attending to two youngsters, while another child crosses from the boat to the dinghy, a potentially hazardous leap. That was 1965: today the wearing of a lifejacket would be automatic.

Not far distant from the Slaughters are the little villages of Lower and Upper Swell, both situated in an entrancing rural landscape along the banks of the River Dikler.

The Oxfam poster both pre-empts the later popularity of charity-shopping, and also displays an effective line in ironic copywriting. Fading into the distance is the high ground of Thorndon Park.

This gently curving street is to the east of the town. This view, looking back towards the town centre, shows both the Congregational and parish churches.

There is a wonderful mixture of timber-framed, Georgian and Victorian buildings here, which line both sides of the road.

Both privately owned, they later sold out to a major brewery that joined them together in May 1989.

This delightful mill is to be found on the River Blackwater. Few can pass over the hump-backed bridge without pausing to get a better view.

Eckington is another north-east Derbyshire town which formerly depended on the collieries which surrounded it, but which now is finding a new focus as a commuter town for Chesterfield and Sheffield.

On the right is the Cliffe post office, with a pillar box outside. The Black Bull pub (centre) was another property of the Maidstone brewers Style & Winch.

The Hope was one of the many inns and pubs that lined the course of the canal, at one time or another.

Another view from Castle Hill, this time looking west. In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

The Thames is not sufficiently wide at Oxford for the conventional kind of race in which one boat, known as an eight, overtakes another.

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

Because the River Cam itself is not wide enough for conventional races, races called 'Bumps' are held.

Note the telegraph poles on the left, once a regular sight alongside canals.

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.

The house on the corner of Montrose Street to the left is now another medical centre, with a dental surgery next door.

Because the River Cam itself is not wide enough for conventional races, races called 'Bumps' are held.

Here we see another restful feature in the Valley Gardens, but this is a later design. The area was originally a croquet lawn, established in 1864.

Speedwell Cavern, at the foot of the Winnats Pass, is another of Castleton's famous show caves.

The Jew’s House is another of Lincoln’s surviving early medieval stone houses: the city has more than most.