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Extending for 20 miles and covering 90,000 acres, much of the forest has remained the same since William the Conqueror established it as his deer park.

Whereas Glasgow Green had been a part of the common grazing land of the burgh since the earliest times, the greening of Glasgow really began in 1852 when the city acquired the estates of Woodlands

A chemist and tobacconist stand on the left, while on the right near the parked car is a petrol pump - of course, it would not be allowed so close to buildings now.

An early form of people carrier, a charabanc, is parked towards the sea wall, while a double-decker bus has stopped to let the day-trippers alight.

The 'No Waiting' sign suggests that car parking has become something of a problem. In the middle distance that other scourge of modern life, the television aerial, is beginning to make an appearance.

Boar Lane bissects Briggate and runs along the southern edge of the commercial heart of the city between Kirkgate and Park Row.

A Pavilion by James Tait (1834-1915), typical of the early 1880s, with its hints of Gothic merging into Tudor fram- ing, making a valuable contribution to the ambience of the park, which was laid out

The gigantic white 'golf balls' of the Fylingdales Early Warning System were a landmark on the eastern side of the North York Moors National Park for many years, before being replaced in the 1990s with

Cars and buses are parked haphazardly on the green, which is surrounded by public houses such as the Black Bull (centre) and the King's Arms (right).

Kirkby's Market Place taken nearly 20 years after photograph No 59539, and showing few changes apart from the motor vehicles; these include the charabanc which plied between Lancaster and Sedburgh, parked

This public park, with its neatly-trimmed shrubs and bushes, occupies the former site of the vineyard of the Benedictine monastery founded in 1082 by Bishop Gundulf.

Nearby Parham Park has a fine Elizabethan mansion that is open to visitors during the summer months.The picture shows the common with the village in the background.The young girls are dressed up

Today, there is no caravan park, the upper storey timber cladding has gone, and the pub's name has changed to Jack-in-the-Green. Where our photographer was standing there is now a speed camera.

Opened in 1883 on the site of the old Crockherbtown Theatre, with money raised by a consortium headed by James Howell, the Park Hotel 'designed for high-class family business', was to epitomise the

After years of fundraising initiated by the 'Western Mail' newspaper a war memorial was finally constructed in Cathays Park's Queen Alexandra Gardens.

North Street leads out of the town in the direction of Cowdray Park, with which the town is most closely associated.

This footbridge, now gone, went across the river Marden from the footpath to the left, and led into a bungalow which was situated on what is now Somerfield's car park.

Either way, it is nice to relax and have refreshments among the wooded hills, especially after driving there in convertibles such as those parked at the gateway.

The deserted open ground has since been transformed into the Pentewan Sands Holiday Park. Pentewan village is on the far side of the beach, and two sailing boats set off from the harbour pier.

Its corresponding Church Centre has been established comparatively recently in the long building, across the road, beyond the parked Austin A35 motor car.

So, too, was another age: see the Curry's Television van parked in front of the Queen's Head.

Opened in 1874, on the site of a disused quarry on the edge of the town centre, the Arboretum is a surprisingly peaceful park where fat, contented ducks loaf around a pool.

With the new houses came the park, a place for gentle exercise or relaxation and a favourite walk for nannies and their prams.

There are 600 parking spaces here, and the railway station is less than a mile away, making Farnborough useful to London commuters.