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Our photograph shows one bus and one bicycle: today it is a nose-to-tail stream of traffic, and strictly no parking.

The 'motor park' is behind the covered car.

The archway, dating from 1870, is in memory of Admiral Robert Mitford, who lived in Hunmanby Hall with its 56-acre park. His will provided coal and clothing for the poor of the village.

This pretty garden lies on the corner of Park Road and York Road. How sad that this quiet place is now occupied by Titan House, a massive office building several storeys high and currently empty.

Just inside the ornamental gates we can see the original house of the Park Curator, which today serves as a small café. The Dorman Museum, opened in 1904, lies just beyond the gates.

Not far away is Queen Elizabeth Country Park.

The hospital is now demolished, and today this is the site of Royal Victoria Country Park. Only the chapel survives, which is now a museum.

Parked is a Hillman Imp with L-plates that in 1967 cost £665 at Alec Bennett in Portswood. The building with the rooftop rail beyond Newbury's is Sarisbury Buildings.

Stanley Park is next to the beach. There is a railway station nearby.

What it does not have now is a helter-skelter and the North Shore Café - all that has gone, and there is now a huge car park here.

Frensham is known for its ponds and its common – now Frensham Country Park.

The site is now a caravan park. The 1881 Census recorded Thomas Walker, whose name is painted on the boat, as a boat builder, resident at Crown Villas, Bowness.

Hulley's, a local coach firm, have one of their vehicles parked on the bus stand. Their stage carriage service reached - and still does - some of the more remote villages in the area.

The road now swings round into a car park, passing along the side of the Old Bakery.

Nowadays the fields to the far left are a leisure yacht park - yachts are the river's modern traffic - and the tea garden in the middle distance has long gone.

In this picture, The Square is beginning to acquire its modern layout with marked parking bays in the centre, one-way arrows and white lines to define the bus-stop outside the Midland Bank

Village Way now passes to its left to the Leisure Centre and its car parks.

In 1980 the lake became one of the top ten country parks in the country.

Note the open vista through the trees at the top left of photograph - the park not yet fully encircled by housing.

This group includes the Bull (centre left) and the late 15th-century Weaver's House beyond the parked car. On the right is a former 16th-century pub with a decorative Victorian front.

Beulah Methodist chapel had to be removed to make way for the motorway, and was rebuilt in the country park in the Afan Valley.

The coffee merchant E W Coleman's van is parked outside his shop (centre); beside its window is an LNER train timetable - Station Road is off to the left.

The Hazelgrove Glen was given to Saltburn by the Marquis of Zetland in 1899; it became the town's first free park in 1904, after some initial reluctance by the Town Council to adopt and develop it.

Parked outside Timothy Whites (left) is a 1954 Austin A40 Cambridge saloon. There were over 600 Timothy Whites chemists across the UK.