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According to local legend this was created at the order of the Prince Regent, who used the London to Brighton road to travel to his Pavilion by the sea at Brighton.

This view is taken looking north- west along Benyon Road towards the junction of Pound Street and Carshalton Road. The high brick wall in the distance belongs to Carshalton House.

Few national brands were to be seen on the main street, apart from Lipton's grocery and the Westminster Bank visible in this photograph; the remainder are locally owned and managed businesses.

Situated on the river Sence to the south of the town, the mill was first recorded around the mid 12th century, and by the early 17th century a windmill had also been built a little to its north.

This view of the caravan site shows it before extensive development had taken place. Sully Island in the background has been the scene of many ships being driven ashore by gale-force winds.

The Bridge Inn is named after Victoria Bridge, built to span a tidal creek that ran across the line of Bolton Road; the bridge thus linked Bolton Road to the New Chester Road (the creek was eventually

Almost opposite Foresters Cottages is the headquarters of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, and members' cars often visit the village.

Newnham Parade, built in the early 1960s on the site of the old Triangle Cafe (which had been demolished in 1960), was a favourite meeting place for locals and travellers from London to Ware.

Over Easter 1934, there was an epidemic of influenza, measles and chicken pox.

While the neighbouring resort of Margate had been attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late

The mid 19th-century houses are fairly run-of-the-mill, but had the cameraman turned round he could have photographed a fairly new arrival on the Hill.

The Plaiting School in the village employed village ladies and children who supplemented the low agricultural wages by weaving strips of straw, called plait, to the hat-making trade in Luton.

Between 1914 and 1920 there had been huge increases in the prices of even the most basic of foodstuffs.

This photograph shows the splendid elevation of a building which never got the formal square it deserved.

It soon became a destination for those who wanted to enjoy a spot which seems to make the mouth of Belfast Lough its own.

The board on the side of the Town Hall is for the Municipal Camping Ground.

This view shows the higher part of the town. Note the Rees, Baker & Co., Fishguard delivery cart and the Great Western Hotel on the left.

This splendid branch railway ran from Ulverston to Newby Bridge and Lakeside at the foot of Windermere.

The Poor House (left) was built at the direction of Sir Robert Hitcham (d1636), who owned the castle. The gable wing dates from 1637, and the remainder from 1729.

Once a royal manor, until Henry II gave it to the Courtenays, the village of Sutton Courtenay has several notable buildings.

Edward VI of England was destined not marry the Queen of Scots. He died in 1553 and was succeeded by his Catholic sister.

In this view, the photographer looks back past the Bucks Evangelistic Mission Hall to the Georgian-fronted cottages on the right of photograph number A84022.

A three-storey pier jetty enabled passengers to embark or disembark at all stages of the tide when the pleasure steamer 'Winnie' made trips to Southport.

preacher Reverend Rowland Hill and his congregation originally had their almshouses built in Hill Street, Blackfriars in 1811 to provide comfortable accommodation for 'respectable and peaceable women of