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A contrast to the stadium complex, and the numerous large office blocks that have materialised over the past twenty years, particularly along Empire Way, the road swings to rise up to the Wembley Park

its junction with Laura Place you can look along Great Pulteney Street towards the Holburne Museum, built as the Sydney House hotel in 1796 to serve the Sydney Gardens beyond, a large hexagonal public park

A total contrast is Charlcombe, a tiny hamlet on a minor road a mere half mile north of the Bath suburb of Fairfield Park.

Brought back as spoils of war, they were later given to the park in 1874, and the columned baldocchinos were erected by a Captain Huth in 1914.

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

Today the remains of Bishop Wilfrid's Saxon cathedral and the Bishop of Chichester's deer park lie submerged a few hundred yards offshore.

Though there is not a double yellow line in sight, parking on Knifesmithgate was restricted to just one side of the street, alternating daily.

Visitors to Eaton Hall could alight here and walk through the park to the Hall, or go on a little further to Eaton Iron Bridge.

Some of it was used to create Stanhope Park, and it was here that the Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth was built in 1875.

The finger to the right of the tower on the river bank is an obelisk, marking the opening of Rock Park.

The Crown has changed little since this photograph was taken although the parking facilities have increased on the road at the front of the building.

Wheel tracks in the sand indicate that visitors were using the beach for parking, just as today.

A pram is parked outside W Eden (right), the boot dealer and repairer.

Little changed today, the pool at Stratford Park was opened in 1937 and has always been popular, with youngsters in particular, during the summer months.

With galleries added on the left, and reduced in height by one storey, it now houses Stroud's new Museum in the Park, opened in 2001.

Two of the windows have become doors, while the grass to the left has become a car park.

This is one of the unmade roads to the west of Rectory Road—perhaps Hillcrest Chase or Rectory Park Drive. St Michael's church looms in the background.

The Corporation, at that time, leased out grazing rights to the park and the then tenant, although not objecting to the bandstand being built, asked for a reduction in rent owing to the loss of pasture

Just sufficiently sheltered from the cruel east wind, the plants here flourished, and the parks department of the local council were rightly proud of the attractive way in which they bloomed throughout

The one car would find it more difficult to park nowadays.

The building on the left was the Constitutional Club; it was built in a Bedford Park Domestic Revival style around 1890 with steep tiled roofs and much use of brick banding.

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.

This is part of the Tivoli Centre on Coventry Road. Erected in the 1960s, it neatly sums up the building trends of the time.

Beyond the boats is the north bank of the river, and behind the trees is the large Russell Park, laid out in the late 1880s.