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Further south, Watling Street widens to form a market place complete with town hall and a corn exchange.

Stewart Park was originally the grounds of Marton Hall, the magnificent residence of Henry Bolckow which he built in the 1850s, and filled with valuable works of art.

He commissioned the renowned Victorian architect, Alfred Waterhouse (who designed the Natural History Museum in London) to design a new mansion, Hutton Hall, which was completed in 1867; it replaced

(Sheffield City Council Planning Department) The view over the part of the city centre from the tower of the town hall in 1969 towards the Hyde Park flats (left background) and Park Hill flats (centre

The town's old graveyard behind the Town Hall had become very badly neglected by the beginning of the 20th century, so the gravestones were removed to line a boundary wall and the area

Oak Hill Park was Accrington's second park, and the land was purchased bu the Corporation from Reginald Hargreaves for £12,000 in 1892.

The famous sands are dotted with deckchairs and holidaymakers in the sunshine of the mid 20th century.To the right is 'Dreamland', developed on the site of the famous 'Hall by the Sea' after 1919.

Daimler taxis are parked outside the Bull Hotel (left) and the Town Hall clock is at noon (centre0 which is borne out by the shadows from the south and shop blinds shading the windows.

Archaeologists say that during the Dark Ages the village centre was north of the church, around what is now the car park opposite the Civic Hall.

The village lies east of Rushton Hall's park. This view looks east, the road curving past the churchyard towards the hipped roofed Thornhill Arms in the distance.

The arched gate and the lodges at the entrance to Haigh Park are thought to date from c1840.

The green now boasts a locally crafted village sign, and no parking is allowed!

Chalkwell Park was formed from the grounds surrounding Chalkwell Hall. The Council purchased this land in 1901.

Perhaps a sign of the times, an open-topped automobile is parked outside the Old Hall Hotel, opposite the tree-fringed churchyard.

Conduit Road runs north from Ock Street on the east side of the Albert Park estate, and the earliest buildings on it are this church group.

The art gallery and museum is easily reached from the park.

The views are of the Town Hall in the centre, the sunken gardens on Broadway, the Parkinson Rock Garden in Oak Hill Park, Blackburn Road and St James' Church.

The low wall and gatepost on the left belong to the Foresters' Hall, which was used by the Ministry of Health and Social Security after the Second World War.

Holiday caravans are parked on land where 'footpaths, meadows, pastures, waters, mills' were once willed to the Benedictine monks.

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery

Charles Towneley, the 'great collector' as he is sometimes known, had plans for the housing of his collection of classical antiquities at Towneley Hall.

Hall Leys Park and Pleasure Gardens were created when the riverside site, formerly water meadows, was purchased by the town council in 1889.

Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and surviving wife, was born here in 1512; at that time the castle was in the hands of Sir Thomas Parr.

Holkham Hall was built in the 18th century by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester to a design by Palladio.