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It was the place where estate business was conducted for Lord Ancaster until the Normanton Park estate was sold in 1926.

The park is now partly occupied by a golf course, picnic sites and nature trails.

By the 1950s cars were already a problem on the streets of Lyme, because of the lack of parking spaces. Present-day Lyme bans traffic from the sea front.

The wide streets, stone buildings and the war memorial in the centre of Langley Park look much the same today.

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

It 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, influenced by

Today the mill has been turned into an inn, and the fields below the steep road have been laid out as a car park for visitors to Polperro village that lies down to the right.

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

The church is still in service and stands in the park, although the nave and tower have been ruinous since the 1600s.

In November 1711 Lord Mohun fought a duel in Hyde Park against the Duke of Hamilton, in which both men were killed. It was not Mohun's first duel.

The pier is now flanked by large areas of reclaimed land on which sit a brash funfair and amusement park, Peter Pan's Adventure Island.

Just outside the village is the beautiful 560-acre Godmersham Park, the home down the centuries of the Valoigns, Astyns and Broadnaxes. Jane Austen was a frequent visitor here.

Here we see the village square, surrounded with black and white houses and clogged with randomly-parked cars.

The famous avenue of beech trees, planted in 1835, extends over two miles of undulating countryside to form an imposing approach to the northern entrance to Kingston Lacy Park.

Kendal Castle, originally a 13th-century structure, was owned by the family of Katherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII, in the 16th century.

College Street Public Hall (on the right) fell into disuse, became a motor-body repair shop and is now a car park.

Thames Side Road is on the right with a mobile home park beyond, while on the left in the distance is now the blue steel bridge that carries the M3 over the river.

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

More rooftops, a passing steam train (they were being replaced by diesel- powered locomotives at this time) and the sweep of the park express progress. The bandstand has arrived.

The opening in 1912 of the County Hall in Cathays Park provided a much-needed centrally contained administrative centre for Glamorgan.

The stone-built, pantile-roofed cottages still cluster around the white-railed green with its series of footbridges over the beck, in what is now a Conservation Area in the North York Moors National Park

Chasewater is a large reservoir with an amusement park at its southern end, where people enjoy water sports such as sailing and water-skiing, or just paddling.

A residential school, it was established in 1894 on Brockholes Brow at Farringdon Park, and remained on the site for over 100 years before moving to new premises in Ashton in Ribble.

Created around 1860 and overlooking the River Ribble, Miller Park is one of several in the town, a welcome contrast to the close-packed housing developments that accompanied Preston's industrial expansion