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The old market place, on which the vehicles are parked, is a reminder of Battle's former identity as a market town.

It still stands, with the surrounding grounds transformed into a park; the house is now used by numerous clubs and societies. The ivy has been stripped off, and a café is now situated round the back.

The mile-and-a-half-long Esplanade, overlooking a beach of sand and shingle and with its adjacent amusement park, continues to attract visitors.

The whole square was pedestrianised and paved in 2001, so parked cars are now a memory.

Many more housing estates have now been built in Marton, and the car park is much busier today.

An increasing use of motor vehicles means that a car park is needed.

It is now the only footbridge over the River Ribble here, and a great asset to the parks and recreation facilities of Preston.

The trees have gone, sad to say, and the road is framed with yellow lines telling us where we can (and more often cannot) park.

As part of providing civic local facilities, the council erected a large open- air swimming pool in the town centre in the 1930s on the site of Richmond House, between King Street and the river

The delicate ironwork tracery of the pier seating, and a solitary bathing machine parked by the pier pavilion are further examples of Boscombe`s Victorian origins.

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

The City Hall is being re-furbished at a cost of over £12-million, the money coming mainly from the European Union and central government; Weston Park Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery are undergoing

The lorry and tractor are parked casually – perhaps the owners are drinking at the Chequers, or visiting Lloyds Bank (left); a postman is delivering letters (right).

Local buses are parked in front of the shops, awaiting their passengers.

Bridge Stores (right of centre) advertises Colman`s Mustard in much more basic style than the Victorian sign that used to look down on the central part of the street.

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

imagine the mill pond that existed in Giraldus Cambrensis' time located in the flat area to the right of the castle; in this photograph the area is occupied by caravans, and today it is a car park

Handcross Park house is now a school.The buildings in the photograph are little changed today.The village was by-passed in 1959.

Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family.

The Duke of York is now advertising from the top of its porch, and cars can park outside. Barclays Bank no longer use the premises, and the building has become a restaurant.

The grandeur of both St Peter's and Market Hill are shown to best advantage in the days before car parking.

The market is now filled with parked cars, vans, lorries and buses, with at least seven traffic signs in sight.

Behind and just to the right of it is a rare view of the town gasworks with its own quay for unloading coal in the background; it has long since been demolished to become a car park.

The view is little changed since the 1950s, apart from more parked cars. Sturrick House on the far left, once a temperance hotel, is 16th-century, but the ground floor frontage is 18th-century.