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Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family, who were earl, duke, bishop, lords, knights and baronets.

The church with the central rose window and tower (left) is the Park Street Methodist church, built in 1885–86.

See how the river comes right up to the quays in the heart of the city - all of this was later covered over to become a car park.

transforming the street about 1845, and the businesses we can see here include A & S Henry (Importers), the famous S & J Watts & Co, and Sam Mendel, a rope and twine manufacturer, who lived at Manley Park

Note the parking restrictions on this narrow road: no waiting is permitted on odd dates on one side of the road, and on even dates on the other.

Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat—his cycle is parked under the signpost.

Designed by Shirley Harrison in 1913 in a classical yet economical style, the rendered brick building sits well in its very formal garden, close to Victoria Park and to Lutyens' War Memorial.

The town's Parks and Gardens department is justifiably proud of its long record of good husbandry in the Embankment Gardens.

The building with the two cars parked outside is The Nag's Head (formerly The White Lion), which dates from the first part of the 1700s.

Above the cliffs we can just see the Park Hotel, built as a terrace of three houses, part of a larger development of North Cliff which never materialised.

The houses are now surrounded by the new Croesonnen Park estate, which was begun in 1965. In 1955 the land to the left of the road was part of Chandler's market garden.

This thoroughfare is a continuation of Westgate and Park Lane, and at 80 ft wide is 10 ft wider than Union Street, Aberdeen.

Ten years later it would be a different story, and special parking provisions would have to be made to accommodate the huge amount of road traffic.

Moving further downstream towards Marlow, we reach Bisham on the Berkshire side, seen here from the towpath just beyond Marlow's Higginson Park.

Along the Marlow Road at the west end of Kidwell's Park is the former Technical School, dated 1895.

Albert Park was given to the town in 1868 by the famous ironmaster Henry Bolckow, who spent some £30,000 in purchasing the land and preparing it.

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

Broadway still exists, but now much wider and with a multi-storey car park on the right, while Tesco's and the Nicholson Centre shopping mall take up most of the rest on the right.

Beyond the parked car to the right is the tourist office and market place. Monday is Market Day in Bakewell. On the right, Burgons was a pre-supermarket groceries and provisions supplier.

The Ford Cortina is parked outside Broadways, an 'RAC approved tearoom with bed and breakfast 10s 6d.' Opposite are the Reading Room of 1888 and the village hall of 1862.

This thoroughfare is a continuation of Westgate and Park Lane, and at 80 ft wide is 10 ft wider than Union Street, Aberdeen.

To the south, close to the wall separating the park from Abbey Close, are what look like the remains of a medieval church, Trendall's Ruins.

The church with the central rose window and tower (left) is the Park Street Methodist church, built in 1885–86.

The car is parked outside the former Congregational chapel, dated 1822, and converted to housing.