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Opened in September 1955 on a site facing Oakley Road, the school offered superb education facilities for the more academic students of the town. As

This is a narrow street of 18th- and 19th-century houses leading down to the harbour.

Famous for its liquorice 'cakes' or sweets, Pontefract is an ancient market town at the junction of the Rivers Aire and Calder, south of Castleford.

Brading is one of the oldest towns on the Isle of Wight, once returning two members to Parliament.

The heart of the town has all the popular shops together and easily accessible to 1950s shoppers.

Historian Arthur Mee described Botley as 'a delightful old town with quaint shops, handsome houses, and pretty inns'.

High Street c1955 Mayfield's attractive High Street, with its raised brick pavements and fine architec- ture, speaks of the days when Mayfield was an important iron town.

This photograph of South Street shows the premises of the London and County Banking Company on the left.

This is an interesting scene showing the clean, young New Town. A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.

The wrought and cast iron span shown here was opened in 1883 and still carries traffic into the town centre.

As the High Street runs down toward the medieval town wall gate and through to the harbour, the influence of Robert Wynn's Plas Mawr can be seen in the transomed stone mullions of the Castle

Until the construction of the A14 bypass, visitors to the town entered via he Old North Road through this narrow medieval bridge and into the busy High Street.

The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.

There were once thirteen cotton mills here, and the town was linked by both canal and rail to other industrial centres all around.

Typifying the sixties town planning dream here, Broad Walk presents a range of shops away from the hazard and pollution of the motor car.

The timbered 16th-century Town House on the left was originally the Abbot of Westminster's Tithe office.

A small group of children seems to be attracted by an early motor car, while a Hovis delivery cart waits just past the Town Arms.

In that last glorious summer before the Great War, the town is looking a little more lively, with some early motor cars visible.

In the centre is the old cross: the blur to the left is a pony and trap moving too quickly for the photographer's camera. The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

A contemporary guide book extolled Bournemouth's climate: 'it is perhaps most beneficial to invalids during the fall of the year and the early spring, when it will compare favourably with many of the Mediterranean

This is an interesting scene showing the clean, young New Town. A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.

Originally, College Green was the burial ground for the Augustinian abbey, founded by Robert Fitzhardinge in 1148, and for a hospital, founded jointly by Maurice Berkeley of Gaunt and his nephew, Robert

Rochdale abandoned its tramway system in November 1932; it was a casualty of the Depression, along with many of the town's cotton mills.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.