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On the right is the lifeboat station.

On the right is the lifeboat station.

The need for a new Catholic church in the town became particularly pressing when nearby RAF Lyneham was unable to provide a full- time chaplain to the station, and they helped fund its completion

Main Street crosses Church Street, the A612, to become Station Road as far as the railway line, which runs between the village and the river.

In 1926, the Sands railway station closed and was converted to amusement arcades housing hundreds of slot machines; there was also a helter-skelter and a skating rink.

The pleasant later 19th-century houses look across at the cleared site upon which the Fire Station and the garage (once Regent, now Texaco) were built around the late 1950s.

This view looks along Station Road at its junction with Westminster Road (on the left) and Meadow Lane. The Westminster Bank building (left) still stands, but it is now occupied by a bookmaker's.

Visitors could find accommodation at the Berkeley Arms (rooms 3s; dinner 2s 6d), and those fancying a look round the castle could buy admission tickets from the railway station or Miss Smith's stationers

This solidly-built Edwardian shop is still trading as the Post Office, despite some alteration; it stands on the way down to the former station site.

This lovely village extends from Highwood Hill to the north to Mill Hill East underground station in the south.

This view shows Peveril Point, eastwards to its lookout and fort (far left), which with a semaphore mounted on Round Down, operated as a Royal Navy signal station during the Napoleonic Wars

The station, opened in 1881, was situated off Newport Street near the junction with Devizes Road.

Peter's Church to Trent Bridge and to the railway station, then on Station Street. Horse buses ran to West Bridgeford.

Designed and built by Alfred Kitchen at his foundry near North Road Station, the 'Derwent' entered service with the S&DR in 1843, two years after 'Locomotion' had been retired.

In the last years of the 19th century Marconi set up an early wireless transmitting station near to Totland Bay, exchanging radio signals with a steamer out at sea.

The power station that dominates the town was established in 1927. The bulk of the station was demolished in 1968 and rebuilt with massive cooling towers.

Quay Station was the original town-side stop for the Ilfracombe train.

Part of the newly-laid-out Piccadilly Bus Station can be seen here, looking very clean and neat.

The 1935 electrification of the railway had a marked influence on the development of Haywards Heath, as well as transforming the appearance of the station itself.

At one end was the Caledonian Railway station, where trains could be caught for Oban, Perth and the north; at the other was St Enoch Station.

The railway station at the back of this picture is the reason for Dorridge's existence. Until the London to Birmingham railway was built in 1852, there was no Dorridge.

The most expensive to stay at was the North British at Waverley Station.

A local landowner, the Earl of Plymouth, encouraged the building of Barnt Green Station (on the left here) for the convenience of his tenant farmers.

There are two trains in the station, one barely visible in the background (centre left).