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Bateman was also responsible for laying out the Arboretum at Derby, the first public park in England. The Grange later became a children's hospital.

The Kinglake Monument has gone, and the streets around have created a traffic junction here, with obvious parking restrictions. Greater changes were still to come.

An ornamental lake and a bandstand may seem to be anachronistic in a rural community, but the park has been at the heart of many successful events and family outings for most of the 20th century.

From the 17th century through until 1922, Cassiobury Park was the home of the Earls of Essex.

This little pool fills up with all manner of water fowl; it has become a popular stopping- off place for coast road travellers, who feed the ducks and have an ice cream from the van parked

The village pump, situated at the junction of Park Street and Grove Road, is over 300 years old and a listed structure.

Beer is not in any sense a holiday resort, though many cottages are to let and there are caravan parks nearby.

Beer is not in any sense a holiday resort, though many cottages are to let and there are caravan parks nearby.

Some parked cars are in evidence; otherwise the scene is delightfully quiet compared to today.

Library Gardens survives as part of a larger park behind the Churchill Theatre, which incorporates the modern library.

It was here that Jane Austen wrote 'Mansfield Park', 'Emma' and 'Persuasion'.

Harlow swimming pool is in the Town Park. The site is quite near the part of the River Stort that had been used for swimming lessons and galas by local schools for at least one hundred years.

In the foreground is Wycombe Wanderers' first ground, Adams Park, seen here in its early days. (Martin Andrew) This was taken from a similar viewpoint to 70598, but higher uphill.

It was here that Jane Austen wrote 'Mansfield Park', 'Emma' and 'Persuasion'.

During the 19th century the town centre had shifted westwards to the Bridge and Park Street.

The wide square has parking spaces in the middle; in the left-hand corner stands the King's Head hotel. Opposite is Roebuck House, which dates from the late 14th century.

Established on 34 acres of land that had previously belonged to the Appleton House estate, Victoria Park opened to the public in 1900.

The road took its name from the close proximity of both Romilly and Porthkerry Park.

Newnham Paddling Pool in Lammas Land, pictured here with just a small handful of die-hard paddlers and bathers, and a park keeper looking on.

Looking to the north-east the course of the Western Cleddau can just be seen at the bottom of the picture beyond what would have been part of the Marychurch Foundry.

Behind is the car park for the cars to come under the hammer, and the fully mechanised tuning, repairing, and testing service of Magna Motors.

Until the 1950s Middle Mill Weir occupied the centre of this view, but the bridge over the weir remains as an important pedestrian link to the sportsfields and parks on the north bank of the River.

It was decided to demolish numerous properties and to rebuild them further back, thus widening the road and providing parking.

Perhaps a sign of the times, an open-topped automobile is parked outside the Old Hall Hotel, opposite the tree-fringed churchyard.