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Rather than admire this tarmac desert, it is better to turn through 180º to see, and if possible visit, the Golders Green Hippodrome, designed by Bertie Crew in 1913.

At the foot of the tower, a vaulted passageway extends right through it, enabling processions to take place around the west end of the church without leaving consecrated ground.

Kirkgate (its name comes from the Danish words for 'church way') is seen here from the west end of the cathedral.

A little north of the High Street Junction, off Abingdon Road, is Gravel Lane, which has a number of farm buildings on each side at its west end.

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540

Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli's busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End). The tramway had opened two years earlier, in 1896, and was closed in 1927.

Here we see sailing boats and dinghies alongside the River Thurne, with G Applegate's boatbuilding sheds on the west bank.

Houses had been built into the central arches of the west front by at least the 1660s. The Norman-style windows to the right date from 1863, when this wing became the Probate Registry Office.

to the east, this building is now part of the Corby Health Complex, which includes the Lakeside Surgery and an occupational therapy/health centre, both out of view to the west.

At the west end of Lumley Road there were a few shops in 1899, but the view is utterly transformed now from Roman Bank, a reference to the old Roman sea wall.

This view looks east as in U10017 (p37) from the area known as the West End. Here, the High Street splits into three roads: to Leicester; to South Back Way and to Stockerston.

In 1903 the main south wall of the abbey was built up to the ruined west front, and repairs to the roof and buttresses on the north side and east end were undertaken.

The two-mile-long parade overlooks the sandy beach; at the west end an extensive area was laid out as winter gardens.

St John's Church, built in 1858-9 by Morphew & Green and with its west gable-end facing out onto the road junction, dominates this cross-roads towards the top of the hill.

The rails here are presumably a siding, for the Tavistock line ran across the picture a little way past the far end of the terrace, while the Princetown branch curved round to the south (left, well out

These gates were known as ports and were called the Stable Green Port (north), the Gallowgate Port (east), Brig Port (south) and Trongate Port (west).

Here we see a peaceful open carriage ride on a hot Edwardian summer's day; the lady, protected by an umbrella, passes the 1850s east lodge to Offington House.

These are the gaunt Victorian lines of the Coastguard Station at West Bay, looking eastwards towards East Cliff, with Rocket Houses seaward from it (right).

The steamer to the right is the 'Alverton' from West Hartlepool.

Completed in 1789, All Saints' survived in its original form for less than sixty years before it was remodelled and the west tower added.

Behind the pony trap on the right we can glimpse Hiley's Restaurant (now the Nat West Bank), noted for its shilling dinners.

Petworth House was re-built at the end of the 17th century; it incorporated a 13th-century chapel and undercroft that was already on the site.

This crossing is at the east end of Bury Road, with No 58 visible through the trees, just west of the traffic lights and junction of the roads from Bury and Norwich.

Skeeby was once on the trade route from the Great North Road to Richmond, just two miles further west.