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New buildings flank it on both sides, that on the right housing a discount bookshop.

Here we see the North or Marine Lake about ten years after it opened. In the centre background is a windmill, which was situated on the top of the boathouse.

The events prompted the bucolic rhyme “Chelmsford church and Writtle steeple both fell down, but killed no people”.

Shopkeepers were not long in seeing the business potential of catering for both residents and tourists.

Late morning concerts were held both at the Crescent and the Winter Gardens.

Another view of Church Lane, with some older cottages along with some rural gardens, just the kind one may expect to see in the country.

Its position on the north-west corner of Finborough Road was handy for both Earl's Court Station and West Brompton Station. One of the posters outside is an appeal for lead foil silver paper.

Bedford Street is another road that disappeared from the map following the blitz.

Note their gables and dormers, and their first floor balconies affording that envied view to the sea.These family homes are now all hotels of one sort or another.

It is to the credit of generations of Romford councillors, developers and benefactors that the borough has so many avenues of fine mature trees.

This was a year that saw another important step in establishing Dover as one of the world's busiest ports.

The nearby churchyard contains the graves of the writer's sister and mother, both of whom were named Cassandra. John Hinton, rector here for 58 years, is commemorated inside.

Pelham Road runs all the way through the town; it is now built up on both sides of the road. The vehicles are up-to-date - a new Austin A30 van is delivering to the shop on the left.

Raglan was not divided into wards but into two courts, the Stone and the Fountain.

Netley, on the east bank of Southampton Water, was another of Henry VIII's coastal forts, though this one was a conversion of an existing building, the gatehouse of Netley Abbey.

The filling station still exists, and there is another one opposite. The road layout has been radically improved.

Harcombe runs roughly parallel to Yawl; it is another long combe running north from the main valley of the River Lim.

Another view of the mountain taken from across the valley with a very small man-made reservoir in the immediate foreground.

This is another view that still looks much the same a century on. The delightful pub on the right is now a newsagents, and mr Acland's business is no more.

The ancient village of Lancing, now by-passed by the A27, is swallowed up by suburban sprawl which is continuous south to the sea.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

Two landmarks oppose one another on a busy route from the railway station.

The miniature railway at Cofton Wood was nearly as popular as the tea room, though one cannot help wondering if the adults in this picture are not just the teeniest bit embarrassed.

Another national figure was Dewsbury's only MP to become a Cabinet Minister. Walter Runciman, the Liberal MP, headed the Education Board in 1908 and was at the Board of Trade in 1914.