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Henry Gibbs ran the post office, filling station and village store for many years.

The right-hand station is the Great Northern line, later the LNER, and its station buildings largely remain.

The bus station was built to incorporate a parade of shops, seen here beneath the canopy. This has now changed considerably.

The fire station and its tower dominate the scene, with the ambulance station and complementary education buildings to the right.

According to Eric Parker, scores of visitors to Leith Hill would alight at Holmwood railway station and be taken by horse-drawn brake to the foot of the hill - the rest of the

This view of Station Road looks south-west past the junction to Havelock Street, with the imposing clock tower of the 1903 Co-op store.

It also gave access to Fryston Hall nearby, which was demolished in 1931 when the power station was extended. Each year the generating station consumes 5 million tons of coal.

Looking west, the camera captures the underground station in its rather austere setting.

One stop short of the terminus at Cockfosters, Oakwood Station is one of the jewels along this northern stretch of the Piccadilly line, which also includes Southgate, Arnos Grove and Cockfosters.

Up until 1977 this station was shared with Hants & Dorset motor services. Bristol K5G buses ran into Woolston, and Corporation buses served the floating bridge.

St Pancras Station was built in 1867, taking its name from nearby St Pancras's Church, over whose churchyard some of the railway lines were laid.

The Station Master's house can be seen to the left, with the main entrance to the station beyond that. The closed gates would indicate the arrival of a steam train.

A lifeboat station was established here in 1871 as well as the one at North Landing, because the curve of the cliff gave shelter and made it easier to launch a boat from here.

A train approaches the down platform of this station on the Horsham to Guildford Railway, which opened in 1865 and is long since closed.

From its beginnings as a railway station amid fields, the town has grown and continues to grow dramatically.

This view, similar to number 16049, is interesting, because it shows the square block of the new cable station on the right.

Until 1879, when a station opened on the Birmingham-Walsall railway, there had been only farmland here. Housing development followed the railway, but the station closed in 1965.

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.

This photograph looks towards the level crossing, where at the moment we can just see a steam train drawing away from the station.

Ramsgate Sands Station is in the centre of the picture. It was one of two stations at Ramsgate, and was the terminus of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway.

Traditionally, retail outlets built on the approaches to railway stations serving local lines have proved to be most profitable.

Shops and a post office overlook the junction in the centre of the village by the railway station. Just along Station Road, on the left by the chemist is the Marine Café.

were sufficient shops for the town's immediate needs, the Development Corporation directed its energies to other facilities and public buildings, starting work on St Martin's Church, the police station

To the left of York's city wall stands the station opened by the North Eastern Railway in 1877.