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These rugged and picturesque landscapes appealed to holidaymakers, and still do: most of the area is now protected as a Country Park.

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

The park was and is a popular location for caravan and other rallies – it hosted the 1963 National Caravan Rally. This view shows an earlier rally with an orderly queue for drinks.

On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider. Here the river Trent is the boundary between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

Its site is now a car park, which, let us hope, will be developed soon.

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

One of the older United Counties single-deckers parks outside the library.

Further out, where the High Street becomes Tring Road beyond the Walton Road and Park Street junction, the printing works of Hazell, Watson and Viney was built in 1878; its distinctive corner cupola

The sunken car park (left) and the railings (right) provide a visible clue to the course of the old canal tunnel.

and the boating pool from the pier.The clock-tower is just to the right of the centre of the picture, and we can see the entrance tower to the Dreamland amusement park.This is the oldest theme park

The Kingsbury pool was large by municipal standards, and it was situated on the edge of Roe Green Park.

The shop in the right foreground is now Mark Doel's butcher's shop; the modern library is a few doors further down towards the Angel, whose sign can be seen in the distance.

In front of the Morris 8 is parked what must be one of the last of Letchworth traders' hand carts.

Taken from Coronation Park, this view looks north, away from the town centre.

The impressive organ was rescued and re-housed in a museum in Lincoln; the site of the church became a car park.

The petrol station opposite, once owned by Frank C Harcombe, according to Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire 1939, is now a parking area.

Since its official opening in Coronation year (1953) by Sir Noel Arkell, this area in the centre of the town has been known as Queens Park.

The trees in the park have all been chamfered up to a certain height to prevent them being grazed by the Bankes family's famous herd of Red Devon cattle.

Inside there are monuments to Sir William Gilstrap, a pottery manufacturer, of Fornham Park (who died in 1896) and Henry Claughton, an HMI in West Suffolk for 38 years (he died in 1924)

In 1890 the John Ruskin Museum relocated from a house at Walkley to Meersbrook House in Meersbrook Park.

This now allows access to the car park behind the manor house, some doors along. The post office is four doors down on the left. It still has a date stone of 1901 beneath the roof.

The owners of these parked cars must be shopping. The first building on the left was Barclays Bank; today it is still Barclays, but it has had a fresh lick of paint.

Today this is the Lyndhurst Park Hotel. Its address is 78 High Street, and it is Forestdale Hotels' head office.

The first parked car on the left is a 1946 Morris Eight Series E Saloon. It has recently rained, but the shadows suggest that the sun is coming out.