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It owes its origins to when a fishing station was established here by the government Fishery Board in 1786. The aim had been to develop commercial fishing in the Firth of Lorne.

The railway is the Bideford extension from Junction sta- tion.

A parade of local shops photographed from the junction with Pine Walk is dominated by T H Shepherd (tobacconist and stationer).

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.

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.

By the Victorian drinking fountain at the entrance to Botley station lies a memorial tablet which reads:'this stone is erected to perpetuate a most cruel murder committed on the body of Thomas Webb

It was taken from the railway station, which was built in 1863 when the Cambrian Railway arrived on its way from Machynlleth to Aberystwyth.

At the crossroads the High Street meets Station Road, while just to the left of the view are some neo-Georgian flats of the 1970s.

Here we have a quintessential country branch line railway station scene, with the Furness Railway Greenodd to Lakeside train approaching the platform.

Although the railway station opened in 1847 some 200 yards south of the Cock Hotel crossroads, development did not really get under way here until the Epsom Downs line opened in 1865, and new station

This view is rich in detail, including the station buildings, the footbridge, a water tower, semaphore signals, lamps and very tall telegraph poles.

This is a classic view of Neville Street, with the entrance to the Central Station on the left and St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in the background.

Buchanan Street Station was the poor relation of the termini, little more than a large wooden shed painted red-brown.

The millpond for the old Hazlewick mill was fed by the River Mole, which flowed close to Three Bridges railway station (on the left through the trees).

When the new bus station opened in May 1963 on the site of two former glass works, it was during a period of massive redevelopment in the town centre.

This is the view that Daventrians saw of the BBC station.

On the extreme right are the police offices (a very small building) and next come the warehouses in the pier yard, demolished in 1890 to widen access to the Sands station.

This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop

The bridge was constructed to give road access to the railway station built on the St Martin's side of the river in 1846; it was designed in the same Gothic Revival architectural style, and the parapet

Station Road, behind the photographer, is the main shopping street, and now has two major supermarkets.

For years it was believed that Bamburgh in Northumberland was the world's first lifeboat station when a converted coble was placed there in 1786.

The least attractive part of the town centre is the forecourt to the underground station, which is also used as a bus station.

This fine building was built on the site of the relocated lifeboat station; its façade betrays its construction in stages.

irregular plan, with the council chamber on the left, the corn exchange behind and the town hall above, with a central clock tower and a carriage archway leading to the old fire station