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Next door is the Minerva Printing Works; it later became Lookers stationers, bookshop and printers, and is now a mobile 'phone shop.

Next door is the Minerva Printing Works; it later became Lookers stationers, bookshop and printers, and is now a mobile 'phone shop.

Taken from about Junction station, the jumble of old buildings in the foreground developed with the arrival of the railway.

the top of Staddon Heights (just right of centre) is not, as local myth says, a wind- break for the golf course on the top of the Heights; it was actually constructed as a gunnery range for troops sta- tioned

Here in 1913/14 Ramsgate Corporation added steps to the sands and built Ramsgate Bathing Station. It was more popular with the locals, because it was away from the main beach.

This bridge originally carried a tramway believed to have served the wire industries in the Anghiddy Valley, which linked up with the Wye Valley railway south of Tintern Station.

Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.

The war memorial is situated on the junction of Station Road with Hills Road.

There were around 160 shops in the town centre by this time, and the Development Corporation had turned their attention to providing Basildon with a health centre, and also police, fire and ambulance stations

Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the famous Box Tunnel in 1841 as part of his ambitious Great Western Railway link between London's Paddington station and Bristol's Temple Meads.

The older part of the town lies close to the railway station.

Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.

This slightly later view looks across what has become the motor launch area of the Bowness boat station.

A petrol filling station has been built on the right-hand side of the road.

The station buildings and goods sheds are at the junction between the main line and the Newquay branch.

During the First World War, St Mildred's Bay was taken over as a Royal Naval Air Service Station, with a tented camp set up on the grassy promenade.

The extensive dockland area lay out of sight behind the wooded hill and the power station.

During the last war, the American forces stationed outside the village lived in Tent City, and an avenue of lime trees has been planted as a memorial to them.

Looking along the broad sweep of Lyme Bay toward the eminence of Barton Cliff, with the protective harbour walls jutting out to sea, and the signal mast of the coastguard station clearly visible.

As an important naval port, Plymouth has always had a large contingent of military personnel stationed around its various districts.

Shillingstone remained a prosperous village for much of the 20th century thanks to the employment offered by a milk production factory and the convenient railway station.

Located just across the road from the train station, the park is named after the Courtenays, who were responsible for much of the building in town (they owned most of the land).

There was a line from here to the North Station, and it was also here that the trams belonging to Lytham St Anne's Corporation terminated.

The Midland Railway station was located to the right of this picture.