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Even in 1931, things appeared to be geared heavily towards tourists and trippers: hotels, inns, cafes, ice cream, Parkes fish and chip saloon, and perhaps a visit to the Chocolate Box for a gift.

The Bank Café lies on the right, and it is clearly a warm summer day in view of the number of parked cars at the bottom of the hill.

Note the pram parked by the spring.

Willenhall recently won a national lottery grant to restore the park.

The town's War Memorial Park includes a 150-mm Japanese gun captured in Burma at the end of World War Two.

No road signs or parking restrictions here.

The handsome triple-arched gateway, with its classical screen and groups of Ionic columns, was intended originally to create a noble approach to the Park from Buckingham Palace.

In 1891 the first experiments in England using overhead wiring for electric trams took place on the Roundhay Park route.

Here we see some horse-drawn carriages, including a street cleaner's cart, parked outside the Parish Church of St John Baptist.

The Pig and Whistle, now called Quinneys, was a popular stopping place along the route and needed its large car park to accommodate the many vehicles that pulled in.

The town has recovered its air of prosperity after the hardships and shortages of the war years, and its growing affluence is demonstrated by the number of cars parked beside the pavements.

Standing in the sylvan setting of Lulworth Park, the parish church of St Andrew's at East Lulworth has an impressive 15th-century tower that predates nearby Lulworth Castle.

All those cotton mills needed spun cotton, and this village, sitting right on the edge of the Peak District National Park, was once an important spinning centre.

We can see Coronation Park in the foreground - the flowerbeds were later grassed over.

On the right, outside the post office selling Park Drive cigarettes, there is an old-style red telephone box, and beyond it two village shops.

These long timber-framed ranges remain, the space between now filled with pub tables and benches, while the rear of the yard is now the hotel car park.

These long timber-framed ranges remain, the space between now filled with pub tables and benches, while the rear of the yard is now the hotel car park.

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings - the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

The site of the old gate is now a car park.

Parked cars dating from the 1960s fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

His statue has been in Manningham Park, Bradford since 1875.

Later, the level of some of the surrounding land was raised, and Victoria Park was opened in 1908.

The five-columned porte-cochere survived; it stood for a few years in the middle of what became a caravan park, until put out of its misery by the demolition men in 1964.

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.