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North Walsham was once a significant weaving centre. Its prosperity was increased after a canal was dug connecting the River Ant with the Broads.

In the 1840s patients at the health centre of Dr Wilson and Dr Gully were subjected to strict dieting, long walks over the hills and the indignity of being wrapped up in cold wet sheets for hours at

Here we see the bare central beach of a century ago, with no Embassy Centre, fairground car park, Marine Walk and Esplanade, shops, arcades or cafés.

The town centre was extended eastwards in the 1980s, and Southernhay was diverted. This stretch of the road survives as a walkway in the precinct.

North Walsham was once a thriving weaving centre. Its prosperity increased after a canal was dug connecting the River Ant with the Broads.

The pines of Crag Wood are prominent in the centre of the photograph, while the slopes of Dodd sweep up the lake shore beyond.

Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.

The town centre is closer to the River Kennet, on its way to merge with the main river.

While the centre still retains its charm where the river passes through, the village is now almost continuous with Andover.

Between the new cemetery in the centre and the allotments and houses to the right, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny railway line, opened in 1862, begins its climb of 1000ft to Brynmawr,

These locks were constructed in 1774 on the Leeds/Liverpool canal, which transformed the town of Bingley into an industrial centre.

Malton stands at the junction of several roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

Such were the number of visitors navigating the overgrown and makeshift route from the town centre to the beach that the Windsor estate prioritised the construction of a more permanent path.

Further north-west the photographer looks back towards the town centre past the Moat Road junction to Moat Church, the Congregational Church opened in 1870, now the United Reformed Church and its unusual

houses along this main street, some half-timbered, others of brick, or board or tile fronted, were mostly constructed during the 15th century when the village prospered in the profitable cloth trade centred

Notice the horse- drawn wagon in the centre of the photograph.

When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the

These locks were constructed in 1774 on the Leeds/Liverpool canal, which transformed the town of Bingley into an industrial centre.

The High Street is unusually wide for a Surrey village, with the Town Hall of 1814 in the centre. There is remarkably little traffic in the picture.

Motor traffic had yet to make its impact on the town centre, and the forage business run by John Page & Son on the left was still in demand along with its advertised supplies of pet foods.

Its accessibility to the mainland and its usefulness as a touring centre ensured that a number of fine hotels, such as the Bugle, were opened from Victorian times onwards.

The buildings beyond the obelisk have now made way for the prestigious modern Waterside shopping centre.

The building no longer serves its original purpose, and Central Lancashire University now uses it as a conference centre.

There are plenty of changing tents on this beach, where a group of boys wave at the camera (centre foreground).